Game of Thrones costume designers bought completely standard, cheap Ikea rugs and cut them up to create the heavy, dramatic winter cloaks worn by the Night's Watch.

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Game of Thrones costume designers bought completely standard, cheap Ikea rugs and cut them up to create the heavy, dramatic winter cloaks worn by the Night's Watch. They took these affordable Swedish home goods, shaved them down, distressed them, and added leather straps so Jon Snow could look brooding and miserable while freezing at the Wall. It is absolutely hilarious to think that the supposed elite defenders of the realm were essentially cosplaying in the SKOLD sheepskin rug that currently sits on the floor of a million undergraduate dorm rooms across the globe