TL;DR It was recently revealed that cloaks worn by the Night’s Watch on the series Game of Thrones, were actually rugs that came straight from IKEA.

With HBO’s series Game of Thrones being the most expensive television show in history, costume design accounts for a big part of the show. The costume design team consists of 80 to 100 people, whose job is to perfect everything in costumes to the very last detail.

In a talk with the chief costume designer of the show, Michele Clapton, she surprisingly revealed that the capes worn by the Night’s watch, are actually IKEA rugs which were properly processed to perfectly fit the show.

“These capes are actually IKEA rugs,” Clapton told a large audience at the Getty museum in Los Angeles when talking about the costumes for the Night’s Watch, the military tasked with guarding the fictional kingdoms’ northern border from giants, zombie armies, and various other threats.