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The glitter that we sell is made from 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 may be a single stable 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 different types and sizes of machines that are used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex form items or square shape items 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. Totally different blade configurations are used primarily based on the size of the flake.

There are different technologies used by different companies of course.

his is an endless matter as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-quality film is going to offer you nice glitter…. or is it?

You may take great film and run it via a badly set up machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. For those who check out cheap glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes should not uniform in form, but you will notice little flecks of film that should not be there at all.

Quite a lot of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use cheap film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from other international locations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising is just not the same around the globe as it’s right here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, should you buy an affordable metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter an excessive amount of if you are utilizing it for easy crafts. However, it matters quite a bit in case you are utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!