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 both PET and acrylic together.

The metallic glitters are made from film that is 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 before they're cut.

There are completely different types and sizes of machines which are used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into both hex form items or square shape items relying 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 sq. flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used based mostly on the size of the flake.

There are totally different applied sciences used by different companies of course.

his is an finishless subject 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 provide you nice glitter.... or is it?

You may take great film and run it through a badly set up machine and you'll not get a clean cut. In case you check out cheap glitter, you'll not only see that the flakes usually are not uniform in form, however you will note little flecks of film that shouldn't be there at all.

Plenty of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low-cost film and operate machines that aren't 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? Truth in advertising will not be the identical around the world as it is here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in case you purchase a cheap metallic glitter it in all probability doesn't have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter an excessive amount of if you're using it for simple crafts. Nonetheless, it issues lots in case you are using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!