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 both 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 cutting glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into both hex form items or square form items depending on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-minimize 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 primarily based on the dimensions of the flake.
There are totally different technologies utilized by totally different corporations of course.
his is an finishless matter as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-high quality film is going to provide you nice glitter…. or is it?
You can take nice film and run it by a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. For those who take a look at low cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren’t uniform in shape, but you will see 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 aren’t well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising is just not the same all over the world as it is here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, in case you buy an affordable metallic glitter it probably doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter too much if you are using it for easy crafts. However, it matters quite a bit in case you are utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!