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CELLPHONE ON THE PLATEAU
Tibetans are a people on the move. The endless space of the windswept Plateau required seasonal migration of domesticated sheep and yak and enc...
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Clothing
Norlha is B Corp Certified
We are proud to announce that Norlha has been officially awarded B Corp certification for social sustainability with a score of 125.2! Norlha h...
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Animals and Surroundings
The Yak Deconstructed
The yak is the nomad’s most precious commodity, the source of all his ‘nor’ or wealth and the main bovine on the Tibetan Plateau. A distant cou...
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Winter House
Nomads used to camp all year long, but about 50 years ago, they began to build makeshift houses to help them pass the winter more comfortably. ...
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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 ...
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Clothing
A Store in Lhasa
This year, Norlha is opening a small store on the Barkhor, in old Lhasa, in addition to our flagship store in a quieter area nearby. The Barkho...
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Clothing
A Gift to your Mother and one to a mother
Celebrating motherhood. Motherhood is the most potent example of unconditional love, one used in Tibetan Buddhist methods to develop compassion...
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Animals and Surroundings
This time in 2007
In April 2007 the budding Norlha team was back from Nepal, our looms and equipment had arrived, transported by truck from Kathmandu to Lhasa, t...
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Clothing
Norlha in Shangri la
This Spring, Norlha is opening a new store in Gyethang, better known nowadays as Shangri la, a Tibetan Prefecture in Yunnan Province. The area ...
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Clothing
First Photo Shoots
By the summer of 2007, despite having no building, Norlha was going full blast. Thirty people worked in two tents, creating our first products ...
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