The glitter that we sell is made from totally 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 same goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated earlier than they’re cut.
There are completely different types and sizes of machines which might be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that lower the glitter into either hex form items or square form items relying on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-reduce shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex form flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used based mostly on the dimensions of the flake.
There are different technologies used by completely different firms of course.
his is an endless topic 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 present you nice glitter…. or is it?
You may take great film and run it by a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. Should you take a look at low cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes are not uniform in form, but you will see little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.
A lot 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 international locations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising shouldn’t be the same around the globe as it is right here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, for those who buy an inexpensive metallic glitter it in all probability doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter an excessive amount of in case you are using it for easy crafts. However, it issues lots if you’re using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!