diff --git a/apps/openmw/mwgui/itemwidget.cpp b/apps/openmw/mwgui/itemwidget.cpp
index 7c79f8027..fd4a74830 100644
--- a/apps/openmw/mwgui/itemwidget.cpp
+++ b/apps/openmw/mwgui/itemwidget.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #include <MyGUI_FactoryManager.h>
 #include <MyGUI_ImageBox.h>
 
+#include <components/nifogre/material.hpp>
+
 #include "../mwworld/class.hpp"
 
 namespace MWGui
@@ -63,15 +65,7 @@ namespace MWGui
 
     void ItemWidget::setIcon(const MWWorld::Ptr &ptr)
     {
-        // image
-        std::string path = std::string("icons\\");
-        path += ptr.getClass().getInventoryIcon(ptr);
-
-        std::string::size_type pos = path.rfind(".");
-        if(pos != std::string::npos)
-            path.erase(pos);
-        path.append(".dds");
-        setIcon(path);
+        setIcon(NifOgre::NIFMaterialLoader::findIconName(ptr.getClass().getInventoryIcon(ptr)));
     }
 
 
diff --git a/components/nifogre/material.cpp b/components/nifogre/material.cpp
index 44831c13b..e216fe984 100644
--- a/components/nifogre/material.cpp
+++ b/components/nifogre/material.cpp
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ static const char *getTestMode(int mode)
 }
 
 
-std::string NIFMaterialLoader::findTextureName(const std::string &filename)
+std::string NIFMaterialLoader::findMaterialName(const std::string &topLevelDirectory, const std::string &filename)
 {
     /* Bethesda at some point converted all their BSA
      * textures from tga to dds for increased load speed, but all
      * texture file name references were kept as .tga.
      */
-    static const char path[] = "textures\\";
-    static const char path2[] = "textures/";
+    std::string path = topLevelDirectory + '\\';
+    std::string path2 = topLevelDirectory + '/';
 
     std::string texname = filename;
     Misc::StringUtils::toLower(texname);
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ std::string NIFMaterialLoader::findTextureName(const std::string &filename)
     while (texname.size() && (texname[0] == '/' || texname[0] == '\\'))
         texname.erase(0, 1);
 
-    if(texname.compare(0, sizeof(path)-1, path) != 0 &&
-       texname.compare(0, sizeof(path2)-1, path2) != 0)
+    if(texname.compare(0, path.size()-1, path.data()) != 0 &&
+       texname.compare(0, path2.size()-1, path2.data()) != 0)
         texname = path + texname;
 
     Ogre::String::size_type pos = texname.rfind('.');
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ std::string NIFMaterialLoader::findTextureName(const std::string &filename)
         {
             texname = filename;
             Misc::StringUtils::toLower(texname);
-            if(texname.compare(0, sizeof(path)-1, path) != 0 &&
-               texname.compare(0, sizeof(path2)-1, path2) != 0)
+            if(texname.compare(0, path.size()-1, path.data()) != 0 &&
+               texname.compare(0, path2.size()-1, path2.data()) != 0)
                 texname = path + texname;
         }
     }
@@ -97,6 +97,18 @@ std::string NIFMaterialLoader::findTextureName(const std::string &filename)
     return texname;
 }
 
+std::string NIFMaterialLoader::findTextureName(const std::string &filename)
+{
+    static const std::string dir = "textures";
+    return findMaterialName(dir, filename);
+}
+
+std::string NIFMaterialLoader::findIconName(const std::string &filename)
+{
+    static const std::string dir = "icons";
+    return findMaterialName(dir, filename);
+}
+
 Ogre::String NIFMaterialLoader::getMaterial(const Nif::ShapeData *shapedata,
                                             const Ogre::String &name, const Ogre::String &group,
                                             const Nif::NiTexturingProperty *texprop,
diff --git a/components/nifogre/material.hpp b/components/nifogre/material.hpp
index abe1982eb..df37ce164 100644
--- a/components/nifogre/material.hpp
+++ b/components/nifogre/material.hpp
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ class NIFMaterialLoader {
     static std::map<size_t,std::string> sMaterialMap;
 
 public:
+    static std::string findMaterialName(const std::string &topLevelDirectory, const std::string &filename);
     static std::string findTextureName(const std::string &filename);
+    static std::string findIconName(const std::string &filename);
 
     static Ogre::String getMaterial(const Nif::ShapeData *shapedata,
                                     const Ogre::String &name, const Ogre::String &group,