DMC 3802 thread Antique Mauve Vy Dk
DMC stranded cotton 3802 is officially called “Antique Mauve Vy Dk”: a dark purple.
- On-screen colour
#714149- RGB 113, 65, 73
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 34 / 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 3802
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 315Antique Mauve Md DkΔE 4 · very close
- DMC 221Shell Pink Vy DkΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 3740Antique Violet DarkΔE 8 · close
- DMC 777Raspberry Very DarkΔE 8.4 · close
- DMC 902Garnet Very DarkΔE 8.8 · close
- DMC 154Grape Very DarkΔE 9 · close
- DMC 3834Grape DarkΔE 10 · fairly close
- DMC 779Cocoa DarkΔE 10.4 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3802 is easily confused with DMC 315. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3802?
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.