The heavy rugs keeping the men of the Night's Watch warm in Game of Thrones are reportedly just cheap rugs from Ikea. Photo / HBO
The heavy rugs keeping the men of the Night's Watch warm in Game of Thrones are reportedly just cheap rugs from Ikea. Photo / HBO
We can only begin to imagine how massive a job it must be to make costumes for Game of Thrones - the sheer number of locations alone means designers must work with a number of climates as well as different cultural influences.
Thrones reportedly has a budget of more than$10 million per episode for recent seasons - but when it came to dressing the snow-bound men of the Night's Watch, the costume team reportedly found their heavy furs in cheap rugs from Ikea.
Quartz picked up the detail from a talk given in Los Angeles by Game of Thrones' chief costume designer Michele Clapton last year.
"We take anything we can. We cut and we shaved them, and then we added strong leather straps and then break down, which is like a religion on Game Of Thrones," Clapton told the crowd at LA's Getty Museum.
"I want the audience to almost smell the costumes. Here they were waxed and frosted so that they belonged to the landscape," she said.
