Clothing
A Gift to your Mother and one to a mother
Celebrating motherhood. Motherhood is the most potent example of unconditional love, one used in Tibetan Buddhist methods to develop compassion...
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Animals and Surroundings
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, t...
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Clothing
Norlha in Shangri la
This Spring, Norlha is opening a new store in Gyethang, better known nowadays as Shangri la, a Tibetan Prefecture in Yunnan Province. The area ...
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Clothing
First Photo Shoots
By the summer of 2007, despite having no building, Norlha was going full blast. Thirty people worked in two tents, creating our first products ...
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Ritoma
East Meets West on the Pasture
Globalization is about migration, easy travel, fluid borders, exchange and openness, though the politics of our age tend to forget how long it ...
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Animals and Surroundings
Babies and 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 slight...
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Ritoma
Norlha Women in Ritoma
Traditionally, Ritoma women were immersed in nomadic life. Larger families had up to six hundred animals, and the women bore the brunt of the h...
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Ritoma
A Norlha Marriage
Nyingkar Dolma was 25 when she married Jamyang Dondup last fall. It was a traditional marriage arranged by a matchmaker. Jamyang is from Ritoma...
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Animals and Surroundings
Spring on the Horizon
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 le...
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Ritoma
In the Spirit of Valentine
Most marriages in Ritoma are arranged by the families. When a young man or woman come to age, which is very early, their parents begin to look ...
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