872

Antique Violet Med D

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

Anchor 872Antique Violet Med D

Anchor 872 is #4E3948, RGB 78 57 72. 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	3740	Gun Metal	close	4.0
Madeira	806	Antique Violet DK	hard to tell apart	2.8
Cosmo	2035	no name	close	5.3

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 872 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.