The most reproduced image in the world, rebuilt one drill at a time. Hokusai drew the wave as a set of nested curves with foam breaking into fingers at the crest, and that is exactly the kind of shape a drill grid loves — every claw of spray is a small deliberate cluster rather than a smear. The great wave fills the left of the canvas and arcs over two slender boats; Mount Fuji sits small and snow-capped beyond, so the composition keeps the joke of the original, where the mountain is dwarfed by water. Deep Prussian blues carry the bulk of the canvas in long, meditative runs, and the sky is laid in as a graded, textured field rather than one flat tone. At 35 DMC colors this is the richest tray in the catalog — a piece for someone who wants the finish to reward a close look.
The chart, measured
Every number on this page is read from this design’s actual manufacturing chart — the same
file the 141×141 symbol canvas is printed from — not estimated for marketing.
| Spec |
Value |
| Canvas |
40 × 40 cm (15.7″ × 15.7″) |
| Grid |
141 × 141 cells |
| Drills |
19,881 round drills (2.8 mm), full-drill coverage |
| Colors |
35 DMC colors, individually bagged |
35 DMC colors over 19,881 drills makes this one of the richer trays in the catalog — expect more color changes and a more painterly finish. The workload skews teal: 8 of the 35 colors are teal steps, covering 37% of the canvas, with DMC 3756 alone accounting for 22% (4,311 drills). 20 accent colors each cover under 1% of the canvas — small bags that carry the highlights, so keep them sorted.
Full DMC palette (35 colors)
Your chart doubles as a shopping list — the complete palette with exact per-color counts:
| DMC code |
Hue |
Drills |
Canvas share |
| DMC 3756 |
pale teal |
4,311 |
21.7% |
| DMC 820 |
blue |
3,957 |
19.9% |
| DMC 3770 |
pale yellow |
2,857 |
14.4% |
| DMC 3761 |
pale teal |
1,532 |
7.7% |
| DMC 739 |
pale yellow |
889 |
4.5% |
| DMC 451 |
gray |
723 |
3.6% |
| DMC 519 |
teal |
671 |
3.4% |
| DMC 3823 |
pale yellow |
656 |
3.3% |
| DMC 712 |
pale yellow |
558 |
2.8% |
| DMC 824 |
blue |
490 |
2.5% |
| DMC 3753 |
pale teal |
480 |
2.4% |
| DMC 827 |
pale blue |
406 |
2.0% |
| DMC 797 |
blue |
356 |
1.8% |
| DMC 3856 |
orange |
312 |
1.6% |
| DMC 407 |
orange |
293 |
1.5% |
| DMC 317 |
gray |
171 |
0.9% |
| DMC 823 |
deep blue |
163 |
0.8% |
| DMC 162 |
pale teal |
152 |
0.8% |
| DMC 841 |
yellow |
134 |
0.7% |
| DMC 775 |
pale teal |
124 |
0.6% |
| DMC 796 |
blue |
120 |
0.6% |
| DMC 3760 |
blue |
101 |
0.5% |
| DMC 517 |
blue |
85 |
0.4% |
| DMC 813 |
blue |
82 |
0.4% |
| DMC 518 |
teal |
77 |
0.4% |
| DMC 3861 |
orange |
58 |
0.3% |
| DMC 157 |
pale blue |
34 |
0.2% |
| DMC 158 |
blue |
26 |
0.1% |
| DMC 930 |
teal |
18 |
0.1% |
| DMC 152 |
red |
12 |
0.1% |
| DMC 161 |
blue |
11 |
0.1% |
| DMC 160 |
blue |
9 |
0.0% |
| DMC 156 |
blue |
7 |
0.0% |
| DMC 159 |
blue |
5 |
0.0% |
| DMC 155 |
blue |
1 |
0.0% |
Chart-true by construction
The mockup above is rendered drill-by-drill from the finished chart (19,881 cells, 35 colors — the exact numbers in the tables). The design itself was drawn natively on the drill grid by our production design engine, in a real, ledgered Design Jobs run — the exact job and attempt are named in this kit’s provenance record. The engine painted a 200×200 working grid, its pixel lattice was recovered cell-for-cell, and this 141×141 window was copied out whole-cell — no resampling, no padding — with every color mapped to a real DMC code. What you approve is what gets printed. Each kit is made to order —
printed, picked, and packed when you buy, MOQ 1.
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