Most of today's dolls are made of vinyl and polyurethane resin that looks like a doll with a smooth, almost human skin. However, the earliest dolls are made of natural materials, one of the most valuable dolls to collect is a vintage wooden doll. Wood was the first known material that craftworkers used to make dolls from ancient times in Egypt, but it is a wooden doll that was originally handmade in England around 1680. Those in this period were called William or Mary.
Craftmen were creating wooden figures for religious purposes, especially for children. This is also the era when many early European traders found the value of trading in the early 1700s. This year the artists were handcrafted artifacts revealing the characteristics of the people of the century, the spread of peg wooden dolls expanded. These toys connect their feet, their bodies and their heads are usually carved together. The dolls made in the 1700s and 1750s were Anne Queen dolls, and since they wore a stylish dress of that era, they were called dolls. These models were made mainly of pine wood and were designed luxuriously with exquisite decorations and embroidered garments. The doll was mainly for adults, not for children.
Queen Anne holds his head and body and carved one of his arms and legs together. Unlike a typical detachable dress of today's doll, a toy dress was not removed and fixed to the body of the doll. The dolls made during this period were called the Gregorian school from the 1750s to the 1800s, and the dolls were distinguished from the previous period. The wooden head is now covered with gesso and the eyes are made of glass, typically painted in blue. While the hair wig is made of flax, the end of the torso is pointed.
In the early 1800s, there were already some wooden doll makers who started a series of doll authors at Grodner Tal in Bavaria, Germany. Dolls made in town have hair with curls, manufacturers usually make pine-made dolls. In Grodner Tal's wooden doll, there are sizes of 3 to 5 inches, most of which are in the range of 10 to 18 inches. The creation of peg wooden dolls has become a cottage industry in this era.
In the late 1800s, the number of artists who donated masterpieces regarded as dolls dolls nowadays has increased. Until the early 1920s, he continued craftwork with famous craftsmen such as Joel Ellis, Henry Mason and Luke Taylor. Mason and Taylor dolls were characterized by a doll head with a neck joint. They hold a patent for this doll characteristic. By the mid-1900's, however, peg wooden puppet crafts declined due to the appearance of vinyl dolls and the use of other materials such as resin.
