DMC 3862 thread Mocha Beige Dark
DMC stranded cotton 3862 is officially called “Mocha Beige Dark”: a medium brown.
- On-screen colour
#8A6E4E- RGB 138, 110, 78
- Family
- Browns
- Lightness
- 48 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Mocha Beige” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 3862
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 611Drab BrownΔE 3.8 · very close
- DMC 3790Beige Gray Ult DkΔE 4.5 · very close
- DMC 840Beige Brown MedΔE 5.7 · close
- DMC 829Golden Olive Vy DkΔE 5.8 · close
- DMC 610Drab Brown DkΔE 5.9 · close
- DMC 869Hazelnut Brown V DkΔE 6.3 · close
- DMC 830Golden Olive DkΔE 6.4 · close
- DMC 420Hazelnut Brown DkΔE 6.8 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 3862 is easily confused with DMC 611, DMC 3790, DMC 840, DMC 829 and DMC 610. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 3862?
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.