Ethical, Sustainable Luxury from Tibetan Plateau. Stories from Norlha

Clothing

Children's Day

Children are the future, and their happiness ensures the stability and well-being of future generations. Observed on June 1st in many countrie...

Clothing

The most significant aspect of giving is selflessness. A true gift is one that has no expectation of reciprocity, for which one hopes nothing i...

Ritoma

In Tibetan Buddhism, mothers are always taken as examples of kindness. When meditating on compassion, one uses thoughts of the love and care gi...

Ritoma

We have around 130 employees at Norlha, all issued from the 200 families in the village with half having at least one member working at Norlha....

Ritoma

Wangdi Tso, on Norlha’s communications team, and Norlha’s newest mother, presents her second baby, warmly swaddled in a yak khullu baby blanket...

Ritoma

Norlha’s core is a mother-daughter team that ignited from a passion for textiles and my wish to start something in Tibet. It didn’t begin that ...

Clothing

When you buy a scarf or a piece of clothing, what do you really know about it besides what is written on the tag? Who makes it? And What do we ...

Craft

Dolma Tso is one of Norlha’s top spinners. She began working eight years ago, and though most women who start off as spinners move on to other ...

Clothing

• 120 employees, all native of Ritoma Village or the surrounding area • Yak khullu, sourced from the Tibetan Plateau • 60% women, 40% men •...

Clothing

When Norlha was founded in 2007, its core principle was transparency. We created products that could be traced back to their origin, with a raw...

Ritoma

THE FILM IS NOW AVAILABLE TO WATCH HERE > On April 6, 2018 a group of 10 employees of Norlha travelled for the first time beyond the Plateau...

Ritoma

His life began on the pasture, as the son of nomads from the Gyenja region, near Labrang Monastery. Surrounded by rocky peaks and known for its...