DMC 315 thread Antique Mauve Md Dk
DMC stranded cotton 315 is officially called “Antique Mauve Md Dk”: a dark purple.
- On-screen colour
#814952- RGB 129, 73, 82
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 38 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Antique Mauve” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 315
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3802Antique Mauve Vy DkΔE 4 · very close
- DMC 221Shell Pink Vy DkΔE 5.2 · close
- DMC 777Raspberry Very DarkΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 3740Antique Violet DarkΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 3726Antique Mauve DarkΔE 7.6 · close
- DMC 3721Shell Pink DarkΔE 7.8 · close
- DMC 902Garnet Very DarkΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 3860CocoaΔE 10 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 315 is easily confused with DMC 3802 and DMC 221. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 315?
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.