A series of kelp seaweed weavings
In Europe a majority of people experience seaweed as unpleasant, rotten and dirty once out of the water.
It is time to open our eyes again to the potential, purity and beauty of this rich natural resource. Plentiful in the wild, eco-friendly and highly nutritious, seaweed has been used by man since our earliest history.
For SEA_through, Ruth forages kelp from Cornish coasts, walking out at low tide over a space that interchanges between land and sea and later weaves it into a textile.
The weavings work as a filter beween the observer and the sunlight and can find application as window blinds in living spaces.
The Material
Also known as
kombu, oarweed, tangle, red ware sea girdles, tangle tail, sea wand, sea ware, horsetail kelp, strap wrack, leath, learach
Botanical name
Laminaria digitata
Colour
Laminaria digitata is brown when young, becoming darker brown when it is older. It is dark brown to dark green when dried.
