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How Glitter is Made

 

The glitter that we sell is made from 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 may be a single strong color.

 

 

The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The same goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated before they're cut.

 

 

There are completely different types and sizes of machines which can be used for cutting glitter. Most machines have blades that lower the glitter into either hex shape pieces or square shape pieces relying on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-minimize shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based mostly on the scale of the flake.

 

 

There are different technologies used by different firms of course.

 

 

his is an endless matter as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-high quality film goes to provide you nice glitter.... or is it?

 

 

You possibly can take nice film and run it through a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. If you take a look at cheap glitter, you will not only see that the flakes will not be uniform in shape, however you will note little flecks of film that should not be there at all.

 

 

Numerous bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low cost film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising is not the same world wide as it's right here in the USA.

 

 

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in case you buy an affordable metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you're using it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it matters quite a bit if you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!

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