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 may be a single stable color.
The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The same goes for iridescent. The films are colored and handled earlier than they are cut.
There are different types and sizes of machines which might be used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that cut 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. Different blade configurations are used based on the dimensions of the flake.
There are completely different technologies utilized by totally different companies of course.
his is an endless subject as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-quality film goes to provide you nice glitter…. or is it?
You possibly can take great film and run it via a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. When you take a look at low cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren’t uniform in form, however you will note little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.
Quite a lot of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use low-cost film and operate machines that aren’t well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising isn’t the same around the world as it’s right here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, in case you buy a cheap metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter too much if you are using it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it issues quite a bit if you are utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!