DMC 3746 thread Blue Violet Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3746 is officially called “Blue Violet Dark”: a medium purple.
- On-screen colour
#776B98- RGB 119, 107, 152
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 48 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Blue Violet” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3746
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3807Cornflower BlueΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 208Lavender Very DarkΔE 8.2 · close
- DMC 161Blue GrayΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 333Blue Violet Very DarkΔE 9.5 · close
- DMC 793Cornflower Blue MedΔE 9.6 · close
- DMC 792Cornflower Blue DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 3838Lavender Blue DarkΔE 11.5 · fairly close
- DMC 209Lavender DarkΔE 11.7 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 3746, so it stands out on a colour chart. On a black-and-white chart, Grillo can still colour every symbol for you.
How many skeins of DMC 3746?
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.