DMC 718 thread Plum
DMC stranded cotton 718 is officially called “Plum”: a dark purple.
- On-screen colour
#9C2462- RGB 156, 36, 98
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 36 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Plum” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 718
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 917Plum MediumΔE 2.4 · almost identical
- DMC 552Violet MediumΔE 7.4 · close
- DMC 3803Mauve DarkΔE 7.7 · close
- DMC 915Plum DarkΔE 7.9 · close
- DMC 150Dusty Rose Ult Vy DkΔE 8 · close
- DMC 3834Grape DarkΔE 9.1 · close
- DMC 777Raspberry Very DarkΔE 10.1 · fairly close
- DMC 3350Dusty Rose Ultra DarkΔE 11.3 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 718 is easily confused with DMC 917. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 718?
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.