DMC 791 thread Cornflower Blue V D
DMC stranded cotton 791 is officially called “Cornflower Blue V D”: a dark purple.
- On-screen colour
#464563- RGB 70, 69, 99
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 31 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
DMC threads closest to 791
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 158Cornflower Blu M V DΔE 5.1 · close
- DMC 333Blue Violet Very DarkΔE 6.6 · close
- DMC 792Cornflower Blue DarkΔE 7.8 · close
- DMC 336Navy BlueΔE 10.1 · fairly close
- DMC 823Navy Blue DarkΔE 10.3 · fairly close
- DMC 939Navy Blue Very DarkΔE 11.2 · fairly close
- DMC 3750Antique Blue Very DkΔE 11.9 · fairly close
- DMC 3807Cornflower BlueΔE 12.3 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 791 is easily confused with DMC 158. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 791?
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.