DMC 3835 thread Grape Medium
DMC stranded cotton 3835 is officially called “Grape Medium”: a medium purple.
- On-screen colour
#946083- RGB 148, 96, 131
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 47 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Grape” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3835
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 553VioletΔE 3.6 · very close
- DMC 208Lavender Very DarkΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 3041Antique Violet MediumΔE 8.2 · close
- DMC 3726Antique Mauve DarkΔE 9.8 · close
- DMC 3740Antique Violet DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 209Lavender DarkΔE 10.5 · fairly close
- DMC 3607Plum LightΔE 10.8 · fairly close
- DMC 552Violet MediumΔE 11.6 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3835 is easily confused with DMC 553. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3835?
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.