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How Glitter is Made

 

The glitter that we sell is made from two 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 handled earlier than they are cut.

 

 

There are different types and sizes of machines which might be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into both hex form items or sq. form pieces relying on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-lower 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 scale of the flake.

 

 

There are different technologies utilized by different corporations of course.

 

 

his is an finishless topic as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a whole lot. High-quality film is going to present you nice glitter.... or is it?

 

 

You may take nice film and run it by way of a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. In case you check out low cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes usually are not uniform in form, but you will note little flecks of film that shouldn't be there at all.

 

 

A whole lot of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use low cost film and operate machines that are not well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising shouldn't 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 inexpensive metallic glitter it probably doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter too much if you're utilizing it for easy crafts. Nonetheless, it issues a lot if you're using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!

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