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 may be a single solid 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 totally different types and sizes of machines which are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into both hex form items or square shape pieces 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. Totally different blade configurations are used based mostly on the scale of the flake.
There are totally different technologies used by completely different corporations of course.
his is an finishless subject as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-quality film is going to give you great glitter…. or is it?
You can take nice film and run it by a badly set up machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. In the event you check out cheap glitter, you will not only see that the flakes are not uniform in form, however you will notice little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.
Loads of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use cheap film and operate machines that are not well arrange 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? Truth in advertising will not be the same around the world as it is right here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, when you buy a cheap metallic glitter it most likely doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you are using it for easy crafts. Nonetheless, it matters quite a bit in case you are utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!