Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

Animals and Surroundings

Feather Waterfall

Norlha is a hub of creation, a place our master weavers and designers play with the infinite possibilities offered by the talent of our craftsm...

Colours

Tibetans painting is expressed in primary colours; Red, yellow, blue and green are the shades that define building decorations, murals and clot...

Colours

Color of the sun, of summer pasture, of winter grassland, yellow is ever present. It's there in the gold rooftops of temples, in the hats of mo...

Colours

While brighter colors grab our attention and stir our emotions, we tend to underestimate the power of the many shades of grey that soothe our m...

Colours

Pink comes in many shades, from delicate to robust. Finding its clue from nature, and the subtle blooms that mark spring on the Tibetan Plateau...

Colours

In Tibetan Plateau’s rarified atmosphere, orange is the color of fire, of fall, of sunset. For its inhabitants, as a go between red and yellow,...

Colours

From the five element colors, red is fire, a source of warmth, comfort and protection in a hostile environment. On the grassland, red belongs t...

Colours

On the Tibetan Plateau, white stands for purity, knowledge and learning. White is auspicious, as symbolized by the white silk scarves offered t...

Colours

Blue in the sky, in the lakes and rivers, in the flowers that turn summer pasture into a reflection of the firmament, make blue Tibet’s all sea...

Colours

On the Tibetan Plateau, green is the colour of summer. It is nature at its most dynamic, when the hills and pastures in nomadic areas turn an i...

Clothing

My father’s favorite color is red. Not any red, but a dark maroon, the same shade as that of a Tibetan monk’s robes and that of the sacred wall...

Clothing

A red with a tinge of pink, a Tibetan Plateau-in–autumn-red, found in the shades of bushes turning color, or plastered on the walls of monaste...