Felt Chequered Bed Cover
This immensely soft blanket is hand-felted from 100% yak khullu. It takes three Norlha artisans two days to create, using traditional felting techniques combined with innovations developed at the Norlha Atelier. Its unique design features alternating squares of different colours and a contrasting border. Each blanket has a remarkable evenness across its surface and uniform weight. Norlha is the first atelier in the world to produce yak wool felt blankets of this scale and quality. This versatile piece can be used as a bed cover, sofa throw, wall hanging or picnic blanket.
100% yak khullu
- Size: 160 × 200 cm
- Weight: Heavy, 1280g
- Finishing: Clean edges
- Composition: 100% yak khullu
- Base colour: Natural Yak White and Natural Yak Grey Base
- Care: Dry clean only
- Provenance: Handwoven at Norlha Atelier on the Tibetan Plateau using yak khullu sourced from local nomad cooperatives.
- Base colour: Yaks typically have a dark brown coat, but they can also be found in grey and, very rarely, in golden brown and white. Our artisans work with all four yak wool shades, which are either left in their natural state, combined to create different tones, or dyed.
- Yak khullu: This blanket was made using the khullu of 16 yak & the throw was made using the khullu of 10 yak. Khullu is the ultra-fine, downy undercoat that keeps yak insulated during harsh Tibetan winters. Each summer, the yak naturally shed this down, which is then carefully collected by hand.
- Technique: Hand Felt
- Artisans & Processes: A team of 11 artisans handmade this blanket at Norlha Atelier. During its production, it went through 7 highly specialised processes.
- Shipping: All orders are packed with care and shipped from our atelier on the Tibetan Plateau.
Hand-Painted Buddha Blessing
CHF 46
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ Hand-painted by a local painter who specialises in thangkas (Tibetan religious scrolls), this blessing depicts the most recited and ubiquitous of all Buddhist mantras, oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ.
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