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How Glitter is Made
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 could be 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 treated earlier than they're cut.
There are different types and sizes of machines which can be used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into either hex shape items or square shape items depending on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-reduce 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 based mostly on the size of the flake.
There are different technologies used by completely different firms of course.
his is an finishless topic as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-quality film goes to offer you nice glitter.... or is it?
You possibly can take great film and run it by way of a badly set up machine and you'll not get a clean cut. If you happen to check out cheap glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes should not uniform in form, however you will see little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
Numerous bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low cost film and operate machines that are not 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? Fact in advertising shouldn't be the identical world wide as it's right here within the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, when you purchase a cheap metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter an excessive amount of in case you are utilizing it for easy crafts. However, it issues rather a lot if you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!
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