DMC 793 thread Cornflower Blue Med
DMC stranded cotton 793 is officially called “Cornflower Blue Med”: a medium blue.
- On-screen colour
#707DA2- RGB 112, 125, 162
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 53 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Cornflower Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 793
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 161Blue GrayΔE 2.3 · almost identical
- DMC 3838Lavender Blue DarkΔE 6.1 · close
- DMC 3839Lavender Blue MedΔE 6.8 · close
- DMC 799Delft Blue MediumΔE 6.9 · close
- DMC 931Antique Blue MediumΔE 7.8 · close
- DMC 3807Cornflower BlueΔE 8.6 · close
- DMC 3746Blue Violet DarkΔE 9.6 · close
- DMC 794Cornflower Blue LightΔE 10.7 · fairly close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 793 is easily confused with DMC 161. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 793?
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.