8581

Beaver Grey Med

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

Anchor 8581Beaver Grey Med

Anchor 8581 is #403E3A, RGB 64 62 58. 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	844	Black Pepper	hard to tell apart	2.5
Madeira	1714	Steel Grey DK	close	3.9
Cosmo	895	no name	hard to tell apart	2.7

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 8581 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.