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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 is a single stable 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 are cut.

There are different types and sizes of machines which are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex shape items or sq. shape pieces depending on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-reduce shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and square flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used based mostly on the scale of the flake.

There are different applied sciences utilized by totally different corporations of course.

his is an finishless topic as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-high quality film is going to offer you nice glitter…. or is it?

You’ll be able to take great film and run it by means of a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. When you take a look at low cost glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes should not uniform in form, however you will note little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.

Loads 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 other nations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising is not the identical around the globe as it’s right here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in case you buy an affordable metallic glitter it in all probability does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter an excessive amount of if you’re utilizing it for simple crafts. Nonetheless, it matters a lot if you’re utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!