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How Glitter is Made

 

The glitter that we sell is made from 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 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 earlier than they're cut.

 

 

There are different types and sizes of machines that are used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex form items or square shape pieces relying on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-cut 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 on the scale of the flake.

 

 

There are completely different technologies utilized by completely different firms of course.

 

 

his is an endless topic as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-high quality film is going to give you nice glitter.... or is it?

 

 

You possibly can take nice film and run it by means of a badly set up machine and you'll not get a clean cut. If you check out low cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes will not be uniform in form, however you will note little flecks of film that shouldn't 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 arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different international locations are also a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising is just not the identical around the globe as it is right here in the USA.

 

 

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, if you happen to purchase an affordable metallic glitter it most likely does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter an excessive amount of in case you are using it for easy crafts. However, it issues quite a bit if you are utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!

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