DMC 891 thread Carnation Dark
DMC stranded cotton 891 is officially called “Carnation Dark”: a medium pink, vivid.
- On-screen colour
#FF5773- RGB 255, 87, 115
- Family
- Pinks and fuchsias
- Lightness
- 61 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Carnation” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 891
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 891 is easily confused with DMC 335, DMC 3801 and DMC 899. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 891?
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.