DMC 210 thread Lavender Medium
DMC stranded cotton 210 is officially called “Lavender Medium”: a medium purple.
- On-screen colour
#C39FC3- RGB 195, 159, 195
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 70 / 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 210
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3836Grape LightΔE 5.6 · close
- DMC 554Violet LightΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 3608Plum Very LightΔE 8.8 · close
- DMC 3042Antique Violet LightΔE 9 · close
- DMC 340Blue Violet MediumΔE 9.1 · close
- DMC 3609Plum Ultra LightΔE 9.5 · close
- DMC 3727Antique Mauve LightΔE 10.6 · fairly close
- DMC 155Blue Violet Med DarkΔE 10.7 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 210 is easily confused with DMC 3836. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 210?
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.