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How Glitter Is Made

How Glitter Is Made

The glitter that we sell is made from 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 each PET and acrylic together.

The metallic glitters are made from film that may be a single strong color.

The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The identical goes for iridescent. The films are colored and handled earlier than they're cut.

There are completely different types and sizes of machines that are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into either hex shape pieces or sq. form pieces depending on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-minimize 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 scale of the flake.

There are completely different technologies utilized by totally different firms of course.

his is an endless subject as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a complete lot. High-quality film goes to provide you nice glitter.... or is it?

You may take great film and run it by a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. If you check out low cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes are not uniform in form, however you will notice little flecks of film that shouldn't be there at all.

A number 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 countries are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising shouldn't be the identical around the globe as it's here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, when you purchase an inexpensive metallic glitter it probably doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter an excessive amount of if you're using it for easy crafts. Nonetheless, it issues rather a lot if you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!