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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 both 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 before they’re cut.

There are completely different types and sizes of machines that are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into both hex shape items or square form pieces 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 square flakes are fed straight in. Different blade configurations are used primarily based on the size of the flake.

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

his is an finishless matter as there are such a lot of variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a whole lot. High-quality film is going to give you nice glitter…. or is it?

You may take great film and run it by a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. Should you take a look at low-cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren’t uniform in form, but you will see little flecks of film that should not be there at all.

A whole lot of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use cheap film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising will not be the same all over the world as it is right here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, should you buy an inexpensive metallic glitter it in all probability doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter too much if you’re using it for easy crafts. Nonetheless, it issues quite a bit if you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!