How Glitter is Made

The glitter that we sell is made from two 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 could be a single solid 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 completely different types and sizes of machines which can be used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex shape items or sq. shape pieces 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. Different blade configurations are used primarily based on the scale of the flake.

There are different technologies used by totally different companies of course.

his is an finishless matter as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a complete lot. High-high quality film goes to provide you great glitter…. or is it?

You may take nice film and run it through a badly set up machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. If you happen to check out low cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren’t uniform in shape, however you will see little flecks of film that should not be there at all.

A lot of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use cheap film and operate machines that aren’t well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising is just not the identical around the world as it’s right here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, for those who buy a cheap metallic glitter it in all probability does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter too much in case you are using it for easy crafts. Nonetheless, it issues a lot if you are utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!