DMC 3858 thread Rosewood Med
DMC stranded cotton 3858 is officially called “Rosewood Med”: a dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#964A3F- RGB 150, 74, 63
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 41 / 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 3858
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 355Terra Cotta DarkΔE 2.3 · almost identical
- DMC 3721Shell Pink DarkΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 221Shell Pink Vy DkΔE 7.2 · close
- DMC 3777Terra Cotta Vy DkΔE 7.7 · close
- DMC 3830Terra CottaΔE 8.3 · close
- DMC 326Rose Very DarkΔE 9.1 · close
- DMC 632Desert Sand Ult Vy DkΔE 9.2 · close
- DMC 347Salmon Very DarkΔE 9.2 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3858 is easily confused with DMC 355. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3858?
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.