176

Cornflower Blue Med

Beside the three Anchor threads closest to it, so the only thing changing is the colour.

Anchor 176Cornflower Blue Med

Anchor 176 is #635F95, RGB 99 95 149. The three beside it are the closest of the 445 Anchor threads, measured the way the editor measures a colour match.

The same colour in DMC, Madeira and Cosmo

Range	Code	Colour	How close	Distance
DMC	31	Dusty Violet	hard to tell apart	1.8
Madeira	902	Blue Violet LT	hard to tell apart	2.6
Cosmo	174	no name	close	4.9

Each one is the nearest thread that range has, picked by measurement rather than read off a maker's conversion chart. The number is how far apart the two colours are on the scale the editor uses to match a thread to a picture; under 1 and nobody could tell them apart.

Use Anchor 176 in a pattern

The colour on this page is our screen value for the thread, not the maker's. No thread maker publishes one, so every chart on the web is somebody's estimate, this one included. Use it to compare shades against each other, and buy from a real shade card.