DMC 3053 thread Green Gray

DMC stranded cotton 3053 is officially called “Green Gray”: a medium green.

On-screen colour
#9CA482
RGB 156, 164, 130
Family
Greens
Lightness
66 / 100

Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.

How many skeins? The calculator →

The “Green Gray” range

From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.

DMC threads closest to 3053

Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.

Watch out for mix-ups on the chart

On a printed chart, DMC 3053 is easily confused with DMC 522 and DMC 523. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.

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How many skeins of DMC 3053?

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.