2021
RITOMA'S FOUR SACRED PEAKS
Across the valley from the Norlha Atelier stands the highest peak in Ritoma, the Amney Tongra. Shaped in the hump of a crouching animal, it is the ...
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2021
AN INTERVIEW WITH NORLHA SPINNERS
An interview with two of Norlha's spinners, Pagpa Tso and Dolma Tso.
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2021
PROVENANCE
With the celebration of the Lunar New Year, Norlha embraces the Year of the Ox, or the yak, as it is considered by many Tibetans. In our first jour...
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2020
THE WHITE YAK
In Tibet, white is associated with milk and yogurt, givers of life, billowing clouds and snow lions. White is longevity; exemplified in White Tara,...
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2019
PREPARING FOR WINTER
When the fall pasture begins to deplete, it is time to bring the animals into winter mode. The oats, the animal’s winter feed are ripe for harvest ...
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2019
AUTUMN IS HERE
Autumn turns the pasture from green to rust, bushes to reds and pinks, creating a riot of new colors against an intensely blue sky.
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2019
DECONSTRUCTING THE YAK
The yak is the nomad’s most precious commodity, the source of all his ‘nor’ or wealth and the main bovine on the Tibetan Plateau.
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2019
SPRING ON THE PLATEAU
Nature on the Tibetan Plateau takes time to awake from its slumber. Snow continues to alternate with sun and the pasture gradually morphs from brow...
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2019
THIS TIME IN 2007
In April 2007 the budding Norlha team was back from Nepal, our looms and equipment had arrived, transported by truck from Kathmandu to Lhasa, then ...
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2019
BABIES IN SPRING
Spring on the Tibetan Plateau has a false dullness characterized by a bare landscape of tawny earth that slashes into dust storms at the slightest ...
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2019
SPRING ON THE HORIZION
January on the Tibetan Plateau. The landscape is bare, immersed in shades of yellow and rusty reds. The dust flies and animals graze what is left o...
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