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 could 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 are cut.
There are completely different types and sizes of machines which might be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into both hex shape pieces or sq. shape items relying on how the film is fed into it. Different 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 primarily based on the dimensions of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences utilized by different companies of course.
his is an finishless matter as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a whole lot. High-quality film is going to offer you great glitter…. or is it?
You may take great film and run it by means 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 shape, however you will note little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
Numerous 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 different international locations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising is not the same world wide as it is here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in case you buy an affordable metallic glitter it probably doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter an excessive amount of if you are utilizing it for simple crafts. However, it matters loads in case you are utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!