DMC 3860 thread Cocoa
DMC stranded cotton 3860 is officially called “Cocoa”: a dark brown.
- On-screen colour
#7D5D57- RGB 125, 93, 87
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 43 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Cocoa” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3860
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 779Cocoa DarkΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 3740Antique Violet DarkΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 632Desert Sand Ult Vy DkΔE 9.8 · close
- DMC 315Antique Mauve Md DkΔE 10 · fairly close
- DMC 610Drab Brown DkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 3781Mocha Brown DkΔE 10.5 · fairly close
- DMC 3790Beige Gray Ult DkΔE 10.6 · fairly close
- DMC 645Beaver Gray Vy DkΔE 10.8 · fairly close
An easy thread to spot
No other DMC thread is really close to 3860, 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 3860?
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.