YITSO ཡིད་མཚོ།, “Yitso” is an ancient name for the sacred Lake Manasarovar. In Tibetan, ཡིད། - the heart, མཚོ། - the lake. In Sanskrit, “Yitso” suggests a stirring of the heart. Interpreting the sacred natural realm of the Himalayas, through adornment.

Its symbol is the Tibetan character “མོ”, meaning “she”. The top of the character resembles open hands, like a sacred bird taking flight, a symbol of how creation with their own hands can grant women freedom and autonomy in life and work.

Every Thathaly piece is made by women from the Three-River-Source region in Yushu.
Our founding hope and goal is to preserve Tibetan craft traditions and share the spirit of creating beauty for the world.

The basic tools are needles and yarn. Local women craft complex ribbed fabrics. They have mastered a rare pile-knitting technique, which cleverly utilizes wool's lofty and insulating nature.

Softness begins with a single strand of wool.
The Ajias hand-twist fluffy big-belly yarn. Through approximately eight hours of twisting and weaving, threading the plateau's simplicity and vitality - inch by inch into the warp and weft.

Sayol comes from the Tibetan word ས་ཡོལ།. “ས” means land, “ཡོལ” means curtain - the curtain of the earth.

Tibetan carpets were born on the plateau over 5,000 years ago.
“ས་ཡོལ།” originates from Yushu, source of the Yangtze, handwoven by Tibetan women using wool from northern Tibet.

Here, nomadic women step from the grasslands to the loom. Using the ancient rod-wrapping and knotting technique, they hand-weave each Tibetan carpet. With their timeless plateau aesthetic, these carpets tell the stories of this land and all its beings.

SASO is drawn from the Tibetan “ས་བཟོ།” (sa zo) - earth-made. In SASO lives a nomad.
He works the bearing of the nomad into black pottery.

SASO draws from nomadic culture - without end. We do not replicate tradition. We translate it - ancient nomadic knowledge into vessels for the present.

Making pottery is an act of slowness: earth gathered, broken, sifted, mixed with sand, kneaded, shaped, dried - then open-fired on level ground, carbon drawn in, reduced. Handmade black pottery, under shifting light, reveals violet, indigo, and silver.