Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

2016

THE NOMAD MARKET

The market economy slowly crept onto the plateau in the '90s as markets began to explode in China. In the old days, goods were scarce and hard to c...

2016

TRAINING IN NEPAL

After completing their training in Cambodia in January 2007, the Norlha team moved on to Nepal. In Cambodia they had learned silk weaving, in Nepal...

2016

FIRE OFFERINGS

Several times a year monks from the monastery in Ritoma are invited to Norlha to conduct rituals. These vary according to need; usually, a divinati...

2016

TIBETAN TRAVEL GEAR

Before roads, cars and trucks, and in spite of its remoteness, Tibet was very much a land of travel.

2016

TREE PLANTING AT NORLHA

In the spring of 2009, the initial building of the workshop had been completed for over a year, and it was time to embellish the surroundings. We d...

2016

NORLHA IN CAMBODIA

In October 2006, the core Norlha team traveled to Siem Reap, Cambodia to train in weaving. Some on the team had never been further than Labrang, le...

2016

JOURNEY WEST

The Norlha core team was assembled in the spring of 2006, and comprised Dechen, Yidam, Dunko and Sonam Dolma.

2016

A NEW DYEING ROOM

Norlha dyes thousands of scarves every year, and a clean and safe dyeing room was a necessity.

2016

A VEGETABLE PLOT FOR NORLHA

Ten years ago, Ritoma nomads found the idea of planting vegetables preposterous. We decided not to push it and concentrated on weaving, not vegetab...