TANG is the business name of my seaweed experimental and research work. Tang or Tangle is an old Scots word for seaweed. I have worked with seaweed for over five years in many different ways from covering it in copper to making paper to larger sculptural installations.

​​When paper-making I use recycled waste paper or cotton linter for the body of the paper and incorporate seaweed as a decorative feature.  My aim is to increase the proportion of seaweed and reduce the recycled paper content and I have made paper with 100% seaweed! Much depends on what the paper is to be used for.

​More seaweed usually means more texture and potentially sculptural and good for 3D artworks. Artists and crafters are using it in all sorts of different ways including painting, printing, collage, cutting, stitching, artist books etc.

I also receive orders from organisations for handmade paper which will be printed on for use in displays and other printed materials such as menus. St Andrews Botanic Garden printed text and images from a book to display at an exhibition (below) Treasures of the Deep.  There are many variables and it all depends on the what the paper is going to be used for.