DMC 3750 thread Antique Blue Very Dk
DMC stranded cotton 3750 is officially called “Antique Blue Very Dk”: a dark blue.
- On-screen colour
#384C5E- RGB 56, 76, 94
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 31 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Antique Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3750
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 930Antique Blue DarkΔE 5.5 · close
- DMC 311Wedgewood Ult VyDkΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 803Baby Blue Ult Vy DkΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 796Royal Blue DarkΔE 8.6 · close
- DMC 797Royal BlueΔE 8.9 · close
- DMC 158Cornflower Blu M V DΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 820Royal Blue Very DarkΔE 10 · fairly close
- DMC 336Navy BlueΔE 10.2 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3750 is easily confused with DMC 930. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3750?
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.