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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 handled before they're cut.
There are totally different types and sizes of machines which are used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that lower the glitter into both hex shape items or square shape pieces relying on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-lower shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and square flakes are fed straight in. Different blade configurations are used based mostly on the dimensions of the flake.
There are completely different technologies used by totally different companies of course.
his is an finishless topic as there are such a lot of variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-high quality film is going to provide you great glitter.... or is it?
You can take great film and run it by a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. If you take a look at low-cost glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes are usually not uniform in form, however you will see little flecks of film that should not be there at all.
Loads of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use cheap film and operate machines that aren't well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from other nations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising just isn't the identical all over the world as it's right here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, when you buy an inexpensive metallic glitter it most likely does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter too much in case you are utilizing it for simple crafts. Nonetheless, it matters rather a lot if you're utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!
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