DMC 3685 thread Mauve Very Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3685 is officially called “Mauve Very Dark”: a dark purple.
- On-screen colour
#881531- RGB 136, 21, 49
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 29 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Mauve” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3685
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 3685 is easily confused with DMC 902, DMC 815 and DMC 814. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3685?
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.