DMC 738 thread Tan Very Light
DMC stranded cotton 738 is officially called “Tan Very Light”: a light beige.
- On-screen colour
#ECCC9E- RGB 236, 204, 158
- Family
- Beiges and skin tones
- Lightness
- 84 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Tan” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 738
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 738 is easily confused with DMC 3855, DMC 676, DMC 437 and DMC 3046. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 738?
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.