Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

Ritoma

Dan Paton, a photographer in Ritoma

Dan Paton, a photographer from Oxford, UK visited Norlha in April this year to shoot new material and teach studio photography to Norlha’s Lhab...

Ritoma

Originating in India, hatha yoga has found its way to the Tibetan Plateau. Last year, under the instruction of Andrew Taylor, who has been in R...

Craft

In Nepal and India's traditional families, sons follow in their father’s steps and adopt their line of work. Panch Anand hails from a small vil...

Clothing

A heartfelt thank you to the generous participants of Norlha’s ‘One for You, One for Them’ campaign. Norlha would like to share pictures of Rit...

Ritoma

More Than a Game: The NBA in Tibet On any given day on the vast Tibetan Plateau you will find nomads herding their yak and sheep and monks reci...

Clothing

Children are the future, and their happiness ensures the stability and well-being of future generations. Observed on June 1st in many countrie...

Clothing

The most significant aspect of giving is selflessness. A true gift is one that has no expectation of reciprocity, for which one hopes nothing i...

Ritoma

In Tibetan Buddhism, mothers are always taken as examples of kindness. When meditating on compassion, one uses thoughts of the love and care gi...

Ritoma

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 ...