Besides their clothing, Child Jesus dolls were adorned with attributes, such as crowns, crosses, sceptres, orbs, banners and pennants. These examples aren’t decorated with precious gold thread but with straw. Straw was a quite deceptive imitation of gold, but more importantly it was an illustration of how seriously some religious orders took their vow of poverty. That is the case with the Capuchin Sisters of Antwerp, for example. In around 1650, in their convent chronicles, one of the sisters mentions the manufacture of all kinds of attributes, altar furnishings and even whole altars in straw. The straw was polished, painted different colours and glued onto wood or cardboard. Using moulds, it was then cut into all sorts of shapes and then glued onto a wooden or linen backing.