DMC 3809 thread Turquoise Vy Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3809 is officially called “Turquoise Vy Dark”: a medium teal.
- On-screen colour
#3F7C85- RGB 63, 124, 133
- Family
- Teals and turquoises
- Lightness
- 49 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Turquoise” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3809
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3765Peacock Blue Vy DkΔE 2 · almost identical
- DMC 3810Turquoise DarkΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 3808Turquoise Ult Vy DkΔE 7 · close
- DMC 517Wedgewood DarkΔE 7.4 · close
- DMC 3768Gray Green DarkΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 3847Teal Green DarkΔE 8.2 · close
- DMC 3760Wedgewood MedΔE 8.5 · close
- DMC 806Peacock Blue DarkΔE 9.3 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3809 is easily confused with DMC 3765. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3809?
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.