Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

Ritoma

NORLHA FAMILIES

We have around 130 employees at Norlha, all issued from the 200 families in the village with half having at least one member working at Norlha....

Ritoma

Wangdi Tso, on Norlha’s communications team, and Norlha’s newest mother, presents her second baby, warmly swaddled in a yak khullu baby blanket...

Ritoma

Norlha’s core is a mother-daughter team that ignited from a passion for textiles and my wish to start something in Tibet. It didn’t begin that ...

Clothing

When you buy a scarf or a piece of clothing, what do you really know about it besides what is written on the tag? Who makes it? And What do we ...

Craft

Dolma Tso is one of Norlha’s top spinners. She began working eight years ago, and though most women who start off as spinners move on to other ...

Clothing

• 120 employees, all native of Ritoma Village or the surrounding area • Yak khullu, sourced from the Tibetan Plateau • 60% women, 40% men •...

Clothing

When Norlha was founded in 2007, its core principle was transparency. We created products that could be traced back to their origin, with a raw...

Ritoma

THE FILM IS NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH HERE > On April 6, 2018 a group of 10 employees of Norlha travelled for the first time beyond the Plateau...

Ritoma

His life began on the pasture, as the son of nomads from the Gyenja region, near Labrang Monastery. Surrounded by rocky peaks and known for its...

Ritoma

Behind every piece of clothing we wear, there is a story; not just that of a brand, of a look or the inspiration behind a product. There is a m...

Craft

Women play a crucial role in the nomad economy of the Tibetan Plateau along with the heavy burden that is put on them from the time they marry....

Ritoma

A Norlha scarf is a sum of many parts. The sum is a scarf, an item of clothing, a blanket, an object of beauty and comfort; a fashion statement...