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How Glitter is Made
The glitter that we sell is made from two 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 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 completely different types and sizes of machines which can be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into both hex form items or square shape items depending on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-lower shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based on the scale of the flake.
There are different technologies used by totally different corporations of course.
his is an finishless matter as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a complete lot. High-high quality film goes to give you great glitter.... or is it?
You possibly can take great film and run it by means of a badly set up machine and you'll not get a clean cut. In the event you take a look at low cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes will not be uniform in shape, however you will notice little flecks of film that shouldn't be there at all.
Quite a lot of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low-cost film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising just isn't the same world wide as it is here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, if you happen to purchase a cheap metallic glitter it in all probability doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you're using it for simple crafts. However, it issues lots if you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!
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