Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

Clothing

Metro Zen

Clothing

Metro Zen

Playful and bold, Metro Zen marks the colors of the Plateau fall, its most vibrant season. Summer tries to linger, finding a multitude of ways ...

Clothing

Women’s Streetwear

It is fascinating to watch how Tibetan women in and around Amdo have updated their dress to changing times. The chuba, Tibetan men and women pr...

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 ...

Ritoma

Norlha's Children

There is a little group of children, mostly belonging to the Norlha Managers who come and storm the office every day at 4:30 and on Saturdays, ...

Animals and Surroundings

On the Move

Today, people tend to forget how much we, homo sapiens, have always moved from one place to another. Migration, which happened ‘en masse’ for m...

Ritoma

Voyager

The Tibetan Plateau is a land so vast that traveling was a full time occupation and an integral part of culture. There were Nomads on the move,...

Animals and Surroundings

Harvest

Harvest in a nomadic area like Ritoma is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the old days, there were less animals in more plentiful pasture, ga...

Dreamer

In Tibetan culture is full of dreams; vivid dreams remembered when waking, interpreted by mystics and scholars, day dreams lying in the grass l...

Clothing

LAUNCHING NORLHA'S NEW WEBSITE

Norlha is located on the Tibetan Plateau the region otherwise known as the Roof of the World, an area populated by more yak and sheep than huma...

Ritoma

PARALYMPIANS ON THE PLATEAU - NORLHA INTRODUCES WHEELCHAIR HOOPS

Every year, Norlha hosts two international basketball tournaments: a 5-versus-5 event during the Spring, and a 3-versus-3 event (or 3x3) in the...

Animals and Surroundings

The End of Summer

The pasture remains a bright shade of parrot green, though the tips of long grass left to grow wild in the autumn pasture turn gold at the tips...

Craft

Old Hands, New Tools

When we began planning Norlha in 2005, we knew that we could not rely on the traditional skills in spinning and weaving of the nomads we planne...

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. ...