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 both PET and acrylic together.
The metallic glitters are made from film that is a single strong 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 completely different types and sizes of machines which can be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex shape items or square form pieces depending 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 square flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based on the scale of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences used by completely different corporations of course.
his is an finishless subject as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-high quality film is going to provide you nice glitter.... or is it?
You possibly can take great film and run it through a badly arrange machine and you'll not get a clean cut. Should you take a look at low-cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes should not uniform in shape, but you will notice little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
A variety 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 international locations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising just isn't the identical around the world as it's here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in case you purchase an affordable metallic glitter it most likely doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you are using it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it matters so much if you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!
The metallic glitters are made from film that is a single strong 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 completely different types and sizes of machines which can be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex shape items or square form pieces depending 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 square flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based on the scale of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences used by completely different corporations of course.
his is an finishless subject as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-high quality film is going to provide you nice glitter.... or is it?
You possibly can take great film and run it through a badly arrange machine and you'll not get a clean cut. Should you take a look at low-cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes should not uniform in shape, but you will notice little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
A variety 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 international locations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising just isn't the identical around the world as it's here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in case you purchase an affordable metallic glitter it most likely doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you are using it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it matters so much if you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!
