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 could be 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 treated earlier than they’re cut.
There are completely different types and sizes of machines which are used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into both hex form items or sq. form items depending on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-reduce shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and square flakes are fed straight in. Different blade configurations are used based mostly on the size of the flake.
There are completely different technologies utilized by totally different firms of course.
his is an endless matter as there are such a lot of variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a whole lot. High-high quality film goes to give you nice glitter…. or is it?
You possibly can take great film and run it by way of a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. If you check out low-cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren’t uniform in shape, however you will note little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.
Plenty of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use cheap film and operate machines that aren’t well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from other nations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising isn’t the identical around the globe as it is here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, if you happen to buy an affordable metallic glitter it most likely doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much in case you are using it for simple crafts. Nevertheless, it issues loads if you’re utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!