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How Glitter is Made
The glitter that we sell is made from two completely different types of film. The Craft Glitter is made from PVC film and the Polyester Glitter is made from PET films. The iridescent line combines each PET and acrylic together.
The metallic glitters are made from film that is a single solid color.
The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The identical goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated earlier than they are cut.
There are different types and sizes of machines that are used for cutting glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into either hex form pieces or sq. shape items relying on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-minimize shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and square flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based mostly on the size of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences used by different companies of course.
his is an finishless subject as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a complete lot. High-quality film is going to offer you nice glitter.... or is it?
You may take nice film and run it by means of a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. If you happen to check out low-cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes should not uniform in form, but you will note little flecks of film that shouldn't be there at all.
Lots of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use low cost film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from other nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising will not be the same all over the world as it is right here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, if you buy an affordable metallic glitter it most likely doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter an excessive amount of in case you are using it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it matters so much if you're utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!
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