DMC 3857 thread Rosewood Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3857 is officially called “Rosewood Dark”: a very dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#68251A- RGB 104, 37, 26
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 25 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Rosewood” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3857
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3777Terra Cotta Vy DkΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 814Garnet DarkΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 815Garnet MediumΔE 8.5 · close
- DMC 300Mahogany Vy DkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 918Red-Copper DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 801Coffee Brown DkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 816GarnetΔE 10.5 · fairly close
- DMC 902Garnet Very DarkΔE 10.7 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 3857, so it stands out on a colour chart. On a black-and-white chart, Grillo can still colour every symbol for you.
How many skeins of DMC 3857?
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.