NEW COLLECTION
2018

NEW COLLECTION

Reborn is red, orange, the exuberant colours of autumn, of the flames that bring warmth in winter.

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NORLHA'S CHILDREN
2018

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, wait...

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Women on Tibetan Plateau
2018

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 mille...

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VOYAGERS
2018

VOYAGERS

The Tibetan Plateau is a land so vast that traveling was a full time occupation and an integral part of culture.

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HARVEST ON THE PLATEAU
2018

HARVEST ON THE PLATEAU

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

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DREAMER
2018

DREAMER

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

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THE END OF SUMMER
2018

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.

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OLD HANDS, NEW TOOLS
2018

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 planned to...

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COLOUR IN GREY
2018

COLOUR IN GREY

Colour tends to catch our eye and excite our brain, causing us to overlook the beauty of grey.

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MACHU LEARNING CURVE
2018

MACHU LEARNING CURVE

When Dechen and her brother Genam set off to Amdo to buy yak wool in the summer of 2005, they had no idea what they were getting into, and neither ...

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SILHOUETTES
2018

SILHOUETTES

Ritoma, like many other areas of grassland is a succession of hills and valleys. Nomads pitch their tents on the south facing flank of a hill, prot...

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