Peg wooden dolls
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Peg wooden dolls are some of the oldest surviving dolls, and were made worldwide. Although the term "peg-wooden" refers to a jointing technique where the arms and/or legs are attached to the body with pegs, this term came to be synonymous with simple lathe turned dolls from the Groden Valley in the Alps.
Sometimes a peg wooden doll's arms or legs are locked together by the jointing system, so if one arm is moved the other will move. An advanced form of peg joints is where the body pegs are "split" and attached separately allowing independent movement.
Peg wooden dolls are Dutch in origin and were imported and sold undressed. Young girls would then make their clothing from scraps of fabric.
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