DMC 800 thread Delft Blue Pale
DMC stranded cotton 800 is officially called “Delft Blue Pale”: a light blue, muted.
- On-screen colour
#C0CCDE- RGB 192, 204, 222
- Family
- Blues
- Lightness
- 82 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Delft Blue” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 800
Ranked by perceived colour difference (ΔE 2000): below 2.5 the eye can hardly tell them apart.
- DMC 157Cornflower Blue Vy LtΔE 3.5 · very close
- DMC 3752Antique Blue Very LtΔE 3.6 · very close
- DMC 159Blue Gray LightΔE 3.8 · very close
- DMC 3840Lavender Blue LightΔE 4.2 · very close
- DMC 3325Baby Blue LightΔE 4.9 · very close
- DMC 3747Blue Violet Vy LtΔE 5.4 · close
- DMC 3841Baby Blue PaleΔE 5.5 · close
- DMC 341Blue Violet LightΔE 6.2 · close
Watch out for mix-ups on the chart
On a printed chart, DMC 800 is easily confused with DMC 157, DMC 3752, DMC 159, DMC 3840, DMC 3325, DMC 3747 and DMC 3841. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 800?
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.