Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakamahia e te kaitoi a Thomas Gainsborough te pepa i hangaia i te wheketere mo ana pikitia. I tuhia e ia i te tau 1797 he 'guinea a quire' te utu. I whakamahia hoki e J. M. W. Turner te Pepa Whatman a i whakamahia e William Blake mo ana pukapuka whakaahua e wha. I tuhia e Napoleon tana hiahia ki te pepa Whatman a i whakamahia e Kuini Wikitoria mo tana reta whaiaro. I ngā tau 1930 i whakamahia e ngā kaiārahi Soviet a Whatman Paper ki te whakaputa i tā rātau mahere rima-tau mō te heke mai o te USSR, ā, i te mutunga o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ka whakaaetia te tiriti rangimarie me
I tuhia a Japan ki runga i te pepa Whatman.