DMC 211 thread Lavender Light
DMC stranded cotton 211 is officially called “Lavender Light”: a light purple.
- On-screen colour
#E3CBE3- RGB 227, 203, 227
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 84 / 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 211
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 153Violet Very LightΔE 4 · very close
- DMC 554Violet LightΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 151Dusty Rose Vry LtΔE 7.3 · close
- DMC 3743Antique Violet Vy LtΔE 7.4 · close
- DMC 3708Melon LightΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 778Antique Mauve Vy LtΔE 9.7 · close
- DMC 963Dusty Rose Ult Vy LtΔE 10.4 · fairly close
- DMC 3713Salmon Very LightΔE 10.5 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 211 is easily confused with DMC 153. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 211?
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.