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 solid color.
The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The same goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated earlier than they’re cut.
There are totally different types and sizes of machines which can be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that lower the glitter into either hex form pieces or square shape items depending on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-cut shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and square flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used based mostly on the scale of the flake.
There are totally different applied sciences utilized by different corporations of course.
his is an finishless subject as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-high quality film is going to offer you great glitter…. or is it?
You may take nice film and run it through a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. If you happen to take a look at cheap glitter, you will not only see that the flakes usually are not uniform in form, but you will note little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.
Quite a lot of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low cost film and operate machines that aren’t well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising is just not the same all over the world as it is here in the USA.
Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, if you happen to purchase a cheap metallic glitter it most likely does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much if you’re utilizing it for easy crafts. Nevertheless, it matters a lot if you’re using it for floors, boats and in solvents!