DMC 902 thread Garnet Very Dark
DMC stranded cotton 902 is officially called “Garnet Very Dark”: a dark purple.
- On-screen colour
#822637- RGB 130, 38, 55
- Family
- Purples and plums
- Lightness
- 30 / 100
Approximate colour: no screen shows a thread exactly. Check against a DMC colour card.
The “Garnet” range
From lightest to darkest: handy for gradients and shading.
DMC threads closest to 902
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 902 is easily confused with DMC 3685, DMC 777 and DMC 221. Grillo’s “contrast colours” mode gives each thread a colour clearly different from its neighbours, and all-different symbols.
How many skeins of DMC 902?
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.