DMC 535 thread Ash Gray Vy Lt

DMC stranded cotton 535 is officially called “Ash Gray Vy Lt”: a dark green, muted.

On-screen colour
#636458
RGB 99, 100, 88
Family
Greens
Lightness
42 / 100

Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.

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DMC threads closest to 535

Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.

Watch out for mix-ups on the chart

On a printed chart, DMC 535 is easily confused with DMC 3787. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.

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How many skeins of DMC 535?

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.