DMC 3820 thread Straw Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3820 is officially called “Straw Dark”: a light yellow.
- On-screen colour
#DFB65F- RGB 223, 182, 95
- Family
- Yellows and golds
- Lightness
- 76 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Straw” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3820
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 3820 is easily confused with DMC 728, DMC 729, DMC 834, DMC 833 and DMC 3821. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3820?
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.