DMC 209 thread Lavender Dark
DMC stranded cotton 209 is officially called “Lavender Dark”: a medium purple.
- On-screen colour
#A37BA7- RGB 163, 123, 167
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 57 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Lavender” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 209
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 553VioletΔE 8.9 · close
- DMC 3836Grape LightΔE 9.1 · close
- DMC 155Blue Violet Med DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 3835Grape MediumΔE 10.5 · fairly close
- DMC 210Lavender MediumΔE 11.1 · fairly close
- DMC 3041Antique Violet MediumΔE 11.4 · fairly close
- DMC 3746Blue Violet DarkΔE 11.7 · fairly close
- DMC 208Lavender Very DarkΔE 12.4 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 209, so it stands out on a colour chart. On a black-and-white chart, Grillo can still colour every symbol for you.
How many skeins of DMC 209?
A skein of DMC stranded cotton is 8 m long and splits into 6 strands. Stitched with 2 strands on 14-count Aida, it covers about 1,800 cross stitches. For your own chart, the cross-stitch calculator gives the number of skeins and the finished size.