Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

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The Fastest Chuba at Norlha

In Tibet, men and women wear the same outer garment, the chuba, though they do it in different ways. The women wear their chubas ankle length, ...

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Baby yaks are born in early spring. By mid-March, they can be seen toddling behind their mothers, and by June, the yeko, as they are called, ar...

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Norlha products are about being comfortably chic. They are cross-cultural and men and women of all ages can easily find a reason for discarding...

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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...

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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...

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On the Tibetan Plateau, the aba flower, blue necklace of the grassland, is known as the autumn flower. Sensitive to light, it opens to the sun ...

Animals and Surroundings

A fence across the pasture, a banner, a ribbon against the sky. They blow in the wind, changing shade and color like the clouds…. Norlha fabric...

Animals and Surroundings

Fall, the crossroad between summer and winter, is the time to harvest oats. Surrounding the local nomads winter houses are oat fields planted t...

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Nomads on the Tibetan Plateau know yetis and are quite sure that, unlike wolves and the legends that spread in the West, they will not snatch t...