How Glitter is Made

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 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 treated earlier than they are cut.

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

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

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

You may take great film and run it by means of a badly arrange machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. In the event you check out cheap glitter, you will not only see that the flakes should not uniform in shape, however you will note 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 aren’t well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different countries are also a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Truth in advertising shouldn’t be the same around the world as it’s right here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, in the event you buy an inexpensive metallic glitter it most likely doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter an excessive amount of if you’re utilizing it for easy crafts. However, it issues so much if you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!