DMC 581 thread Moss Green
DMC stranded cotton 581 is officially called “Moss Green”: a medium green, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#A7AE38- RGB 167, 174, 56
- Family
- Greens
- Lightness
- 69 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Moss Green” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 581
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 733Olive Green MdΔE 4.9 · very close
- DMC 470Avocado Grn LtΔE 6.2 · close
- DMC 3012Khaki Green MdΔE 6.3 · close
- DMC 166Moss Green Md LtΔE 7.1 · close
- DMC 906Parrot Green MdΔE 9.3 · close
- DMC 734Olive Green LtΔE 9.4 · close
- DMC 471Avocado Grn V LtΔE 9.7 · close
- DMC 704Chartreuse BrightΔE 10.6 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 581 is easily confused with DMC 733. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 581?
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.