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How Glitter is Made
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 both PET and acrylic together.
The metallic glitters are made from film that could 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 before they're cut.
There are totally different types and sizes of machines which might be used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that lower the glitter into either hex shape pieces or square form items relying on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-cut shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex form flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Different blade configurations are used primarily based on the dimensions of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences 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 is going to provide you great glitter.... or is it?
You can take great film and run it via a badly arrange machine and you'll not get a clean cut. In the event you take a look at cheap glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren't uniform in form, but you will note little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
Loads of 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 other nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising shouldn't be the identical world wide as it is right here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, if you purchase a cheap 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 utilizing it for easy crafts. Nonetheless, it matters loads if you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!
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