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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 each PET and acrylic together.

The metallic glitters are made from film that could 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 chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into either hex shape items or square form pieces depending on how the film is fed into it. Other 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 dimensions of the flake.

There are totally different applied sciences used by different companies of course.

his is an finishless topic as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a complete lot. High-quality film goes to offer you great glitter…. or is it?

You’ll be able to take nice film and run it by a badly arrange machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. If you happen to take a look at low-cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes should not uniform in shape, but you will see little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.

A variety of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use low-cost film and operate machines that aren’t well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different international locations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising isn’t the identical all over the world as it is right here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, should you buy an affordable metallic glitter it in all probability doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you’re utilizing it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it issues loads if you’re utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!