By far the most important location in the Harry Potter films, Hogwarts castle is home to hundreds of wizard students, with a library where books shelve themselves, classrooms, moving paintings and staircases, soaring towers, vast halls, and more than a few secret rooms and passages. Rather than making Hogwarts castle whimsical and fairy tale-like, production designer Stuart Craig wanted the one-thousand-year-old school to be reminiscent of Gothic-style English public schools, saying, “This is a story about an English public school, really. So, we made it as much like one as we possibly could.” In addition to having sets made, exterior and interior locations were filmed at cathedrals, castles, and universities. Designers searched for castle items at flea markets and antique stores, but things like the massive tables in the Great Hall were made specially for the film.

Knit in the round from the bottom up seamlessly, this stranded colorwork cowl features the Hogwarts castle skyline as depicted on the golden egg from the Triwizard Tournament’s first task in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Sandwiched between corrugated ribbed edgings, turrets, towers, and Gothic-style buildings and windows are worked in a combination of stranded colorwork and duplicate stitch.