Dolls with wood and papier-mâché heads enjoyed great popularity in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The papier-mâché head, which was molded in models and then finely painted, was joined to a body that was usually made of white goatskin. Hands and feet were either also made of leather, or they were carved from wood and attached. A large production of high quality papier-mâché dolls developed since the end of the 18th century in Thuringia, especially in the towns of Sonneberg and Hildburghausen. Wooden dolls mostly came from Oberammergau in Bavaria and Val Gardena in South Tyrol.