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The glitter that we sell is made from two 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 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 treated earlier than they are cut.

There are completely different types and sizes of machines which can be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into both hex form items or sq. shape pieces relying on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-minimize shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and square flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based on the dimensions of the flake.

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

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

You’ll be able to take nice film and run it through a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. Should you take a look at low-cost glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes aren’t uniform in shape, but you will see little flecks of film that should not 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 other countries are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising isn’t the same around the world as it is here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, if you buy a cheap metallic glitter it probably doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter too much in case you are utilizing it for easy crafts. Nonetheless, it issues loads if you are using it for floors, boats and in solvents!