DMC 3859 thread Rosewood Light
DMC stranded cotton 3859 is officially called “Rosewood Light”: a medium brown.
- On-screen colour
#BA8B7C- RGB 186, 139, 124
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 62 / 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 3859
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 3064Desert SandΔE 5.6 · close
- DMC 3861Cocoa LightΔE 5.9 · close
- DMC 223Shell Pink LightΔE 6.5 · close
- DMC 407Desert Sand MedΔE 6.7 · close
- DMC 3778Terra Cotta LightΔE 7.3 · close
- DMC 3773Desert Sand DarkΔE 9.6 · close
- DMC 152Shell Pink Med LightΔE 9.8 · close
- DMC 3828Hazelnut BrownΔE 10.3 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3859 is easily confused with DMC 3064 and DMC 3861. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3859?
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.