Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

Clothing

SPRING SUMMER 2025

Norlha’s Spring Summer 2025 collection looks to the timeless, rich and abundant qualities of the thangka. Than meaning flat, and Ka painting, Thang...

Clothing

AUTUMN / WINTER COLLECTION

Norlha launches its latest collection of luxurious yak wool garments and scarves for autumn and winter, offering exceptionally soft and warming pro...

Animals and Surroundings

WHITE

White is everywhere in Tibet. In the snow that blankets peaks and pastures in spring, winter and fall, on the whitewashed walls of buildings, i...

Colours

Color On the Plateau

Summer Essentials: pinks, blues, purples…transforming the still neutral grassland that will soon be emulating our early efforts to bring color ...

Animals and Surroundings

Natural Shades

Herds of Yak are visible from miles away, black dots on green or yellow pasture. Up close, they appear mostly dark brown, with some lighter ani...

Colours

Colors and Moods of fall

Fall on the grassland slowly brings in an overhaul in mood and color, the endless prairie turning from an exuberant and overwhelming green to a...

Colours

Reborn

Reborn is red, orange, the exuberant colors of autumn, of the flames that bring warmth in winter. Reborn is the red of monasteries that brings ...

Colours

Color in Grey

Color tends to catch our eye and excite our brain, causing us to overlook the beauty of grey. Grey is rich and varied, noisy but also calming. ...

Colours

Red

In nature, red is the color of life, that of poppies, of fire, of chili, berries and watermelons. Transposed into culture, it is the color of s...

Colours

Blue

Blue is the Plateau’s all season color, ever present in a multitude of shades in the sky, water and the flora of the Plateau. Blue is in the ch...

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Summer in Pink or Pink in Summer

Pink falls short of the unsaid rule about the use of primary colors in Tibetan religious art. It may find its way in the very delicate shades o...

Colours

NORLHA IN BLACK AND WHITE

Black and white photography was where I started. I developed my own films, printed my pictures in my home darkroom. My favorite camera was a Ro...