DMC 3727 thread Antique Mauve Light
DMC stranded cotton 3727 is officially called “Antique Mauve Light”: a light pink.
- On-screen colour
#DBA9B2- RGB 219, 169, 178
- Family
- Pinks and fuchsias
- Lightness
- 74 / 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 3727
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 3727 is easily confused with DMC 778, DMC 3354 and DMC 3688. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3727?
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.