Discontinued DMC Mouline Embroidery Floss Colors and their nearest replacement color

Oh help. You found a beautiful cross stitch or embroidery pattern and it contains a DMC embroidery floss color you cannot buy in any shop. With over 500 different shades in the collection you might not expect this to happen. But it can happen, as over time DMC discontinued Mouline Embroidery Floss colors.

DMC was founded in 1746. An impressive long time ago. So it may be no suprise that during all those years DMC has changed their floss collection here and there.

Unfortunatly for variegated floss colors we could not find a replacement number. So you may need to take a jump and change the color schema of your pattern.

For all the other numbers we provide the closest replacement color number in below list.

Floss colors 3880-3895 used to be available as a set package in the USA only and might be used in US patterns. These color numbers are very hard to get so we also included in below table a list of alternative colors you could use to replace these numbers.

discontinued DMC Mouline Embroidery floss colors

Discountinued embroidery floss colors

Discontinued DMC color Replacement color
48 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
51 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
52 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
53 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
57 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
61 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
67 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
69 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
75 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
90 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
91 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
92 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
93 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
94 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
95 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
99 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
101 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
102 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
103 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
104 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
105 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
106 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
107 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
108 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
111 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
112 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
113 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
114 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
115 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
116 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
121 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
122 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
123 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
124 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
125 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
126 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
504 DMC3813
731 DMC732
776 DMC3326
781 DMC782
806 DMC3760
971 DMC740
3773 DMC407
3880 DMC223
3881 DMC164
3882 DMC839
3883 DMC722
3884 DMC535
3885 DMC312
3886 DMC3685
3887 DMC208
3888 DMC3740
3889 DMC445
3890 DMC3766
3891 DMC995
3892 DMC740
3893 DMC543
3894 DMC907
3895 DMC646
4000 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4017 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4022 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4042 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4047 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4066 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4068 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4069 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4072 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4073 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4095 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4122 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4129 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4135 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4205 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4211 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4212 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4214 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4237 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4245 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4250 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4255 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4260 (variegated) no replacement 🙁
4265 (variegated) no replacement 🙁

New Color Numbers for some DMC Light Effects metallic embroidery floss numbers

Over time DMC has enlarged their DMC light effects floss collection. In that process they also updated some of the floss numbers. In old patterns you may still find old floss numbers. Below table will help you find the replacing floss number.

Old DMC floss color number New DMC color number
DMC5269 E699
DMC5270 E815
DMC5272 E5200
DMC5279 E301
DMC5282 E3821
DMC971 DMC740
DMC5283 E168
DMC5284 E3852
DMC5287 E317
DMC5288 E316
DMC5289 E3837
DMC5290 E3843
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