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How Glitter is Made
The glitter that we sell is made from two totally 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 stable 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 before they're cut.
There are completely different types and sizes of machines which might be used for cutting glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into either hex form items or sq. shape pieces relying on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-cut shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex form flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based on the dimensions of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences used by different corporations of course.
his is an endless topic as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues an entire lot. High-quality film goes to give you nice glitter.... or is it?
You'll be able to take nice film and run it by means of a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. If you take a look at cheap glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes usually are not uniform in shape, but you will notice little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
Lots of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use cheap film and operate machines that aren't 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? Reality in advertising shouldn't be the identical around the world as it is right here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, should you purchase an affordable metallic glitter it most likely does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you are using it for simple crafts. Nevertheless, it issues quite a bit if you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!
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