DMC 3837 thread Lavender Ultra Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3837 is officially called “Lavender Ultra Dark”: a dark purple.
- On-screen colour
#6C3A6E- RGB 108, 58, 110
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 33 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Lavender” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3837
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 327Violet DarkΔE 2.2 · almost identical
- DMC 552Violet MediumΔE 5.4 · close
- DMC 3834Grape DarkΔE 5.6 · close
- DMC 550Violet Very DarkΔE 9 · close
- DMC 208Lavender Very DarkΔE 10.6 · fairly close
- DMC 333Blue Violet Very DarkΔE 11.7 · fairly close
- DMC 718PlumΔE 12.4 · fairly close
- DMC 791Cornflower Blue V DΔE 13.4 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3837 is easily confused with DMC 327, DMC 552 and DMC 3834. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3837?
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.