Every stuffed animal repair shop we hold

A Southern California doll hospital run by a certified Dollologist, mainly working on vintage and antique dolls but also taking some stuffed animals and older toys. Visits are by appointment only, photos get you a ballpark figure, and a firm price needs the item in hand.

Part of a national disaster restoration franchise, cleaning up after fire, water, mould and storm. Their soft contents service names toys and stuffed animals explicitly as things they save from being thrown out. You reach them in the hours after something bad has happened, usually through an insurer.

A full service doll hospital and shop in Chesterland, working on all types of dolls from antique to modern, and explicitly on statues, collectibles and stuffed animals too. Open five days, with a walk-in shop, doll making classes and a newborn nursery where a child adopts a baby doll complete with a birth certificate.

A fibre artist in Cincinnati running a stuffed animal hospital alongside making and selling her own. The clearest published price list of any US repairer here, and a same-day appointment for local people whose child cannot sleep without the toy.

A doll restorer who writes up every job she does, in detail, with the reasoning. She sculpts missing porcelain in Apoxie two-part putty, then sands and airbrushes it; she built a whole new cloth body around a family's heirloom doll head; and she says plainly that gluing on a wig is far cheaper than re-rooting hair. Also takes mohair Steiff, which she warns is fragile enough that pulling a needle too hard puts a hole in it.

A doll shop and repair service in the Dallas Fort Worth area that also sells dolls and does appraisals. Their published price list is mostly doll work, but it includes reattaching bear limbs, replacing eyes on stuffed toys and cleaning toy clothes, and they quote from a photo emailed to them.

Thirty-eight years in Edgewater, and the entire homepage is now a closing-down notice. The showroom is gone and the inventory is for sale by the category. They say they plan to relocate repair and restoration to a new facility in the near future, and they do not say where or when.

A family dry cleaner running since 1949, with a garment and textile restoration programme for insurance claims alongside the retail shop and alterations. Free pickup and delivery, everything cleaned on site, and trained and certified staff at every stage of the restoration process.

A family-owned collectible bear and toy shop in Historic Downtown Glendale, running bear repairs alongside the shop since 1992. You send photos to start the conversation, then bring the toy in or post it. They are unusually plain about both the price and the wait.

Deborah Miller in Hartford, Wisconsin. Repair, restore and appraise, plus antique doll sales and doll shows. Call or text, and if she does not answer leave a voicemail, because the spam calls have got that bad.

Janice McIntyre's doll hospital in Hopkinton, with an itemised service list running from reattaching composition limbs to restringing and reconstructing fingers and toes. Free quote. Takes stuffed animals as well as dolls, and also brings a travelling presentation of 45 collectable dolls out to groups.

Nicole repairs stuffed animals, fabric-bodied dolls and pet toys from a clinic in Madison, Alabama, taking work in by post and by local drop-off. She mends tears, holes, faces and limbs, cleans and brushes out matted plush, and makes memory bears and weighted bears, with prices published from $50 and free estimates.

A clock repairer and a doll doctor working from one address in Marlboro, under the line Keeping the Memories. Two dying trades kept alive by the same sort of person, in the same shop.

Founded in 1977 by a mother and daughter who collected and dressed antique dolls, with over thirty-five years of repair behind them. Restringing, cleaning, and clothing restoration using vintage fabrics and laces, which is a distinct skill almost nobody else here offers.

A doll and teddy bear hospital west of Chicago, run by the same person for over forty years and now working from home. Everything starts with a paid examination, in person or by post, and most toys have to be cleaned before any repair begins. It takes stuffed animals as readily as dolls, and accepts donated toys for parts.

The CRDN franchise covering Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas, with plants in Nash, Houston, Memphis and North Little Rock. Twenty years, 24 hour emergency response, and they will take heirloom fabrics and taxidermy mounts as well as clothing.

Antique and vintage doll restoration, cleaning and repairs, with press coverage on WMUR and a YouTube feature called The Doll Repairer. The website has not been touched in a decade.

Deborah Castaldo runs a one-person stuffed animal restoration and repair service in New Hampshire. The pages crawled are mostly about how she works: the job is agreed in a written document first, photos are sent midway through, and there are no refunds once the work is done.

Fabric and textile restoration after fire or water damage, working through your insurer. Stuffed animals and taxidermy are both on their list. The detail that matters: within 24 to 48 hours of the first visit they return a rush order of essentials, and they name a beloved stuffed animal as one of the things a family needs back that fast.

A mother-and-daughter stuffed animal repair service in New York, whose six-year-old president once said the business would run until she was a grown-up. Their work is lovely and their last post is from February 2013, announcing a brief hiatus until spring.

Thirty years and twenty thousand toys, in an 1890s building in downtown Noblesville. Tin, celluloid, composition and pressed steel, custom parts fabricated for almost anything, and the mechanisms repaired: wind-up and battery-operated both. They also invented the cardboard box repair business. This is where the toys every plush specialist refuses actually go.

A stuffed animal repair service in Omaha run by Janice Bjornstad, covering ripped seams, missing facial features, limb reattachment, joint repair, fur weaving, restuffing and hand washing. You text photos to get a free quote, but parts of the website are unfinished and still carry template placeholder text.

A disaster restoration company covering Southern California, working insurance claims after fire, smoke, water and mould. Stuffed animals are on their list of textiles restored, alongside wedding gowns and rugs. This is not a repair shop: they arrive after a house fire, pack everything out, and return what can be saved.

A specialist cleaner of thirty-five years with a dedicated soft toy service, in store in Scottsdale and by post from anywhere in the country or the world. They clean, sanitise and deodorise inside and out, and they draw a careful distinction between a plushie, a soft toy and a stuffed animal by what the eyes and nose are made of. Cleaning, not repair.

A long-running doll hospital in the Kansas City area that also repairs stuffed animals of any size, including deep cleaning, sanitising, and replacing old stuffing with new hypoallergenic fiberfill. Repairs are booked by phone, take at least 60 to 90 days and sometimes more than a year, and they do not touch mechanical or electrical parts.

Every bear Vermont Teddy Bear makes carries a lifetime guarantee. If anything happens to it you send it to their Bear Hospital in Shelburne and they repair or replace it, free, for as long as the bear exists. Their own bears only, and unlike Build-A-Bear you post it rather than walk in.

A studio east of Atlanta restoring dolls, teddy bears and old toys, run by Linda Blase for more than twenty years. It repairs stuffed animals as well as porcelain, composition, plastic and vinyl dolls, offers a free consultation, and values dolls as a separate service. It takes cash or money orders only.

A long-running doll and bear repair shop on Long Island, run by Jan, that also takes stuffed animals and Steiff pieces. They clean, restuff, mend tears and replace eyes, they keep original parts wherever they can, and they do not touch porcelain.

A doll hospital on St Charles Rock Road specialising in Ginny and Terri Lee dolls, with its own shop for wigs, shoes, elastic cord, doll paints and cleaner. The site is a parts catalogue with a repair service attached, and says almost nothing about the repair service itself.

Elaine Vernon, a certified Master Doll Doctor of twenty-five years, running a full-service doll hospital in Stockton. Invisible porcelain repair, composition, wood, papier mache, wigs, rocker eyes and costumes. Estimate from photos first, then a final estimate once it is in her hands.

A Tallahassee dry cleaner of twenty-five years with a fire and flood restoration arm, fur and leather work, and complimentary pickup and delivery. Their advice on hurricane damage is the most useful thing they publish: photograph everything before you clean or throw anything away, because documentation decides what an insurer will pay for and what a restorer can save.

Dorothy Meredith and her husband Mike, restoring dolls from a studio in Central Texas since the early 1980s, specialising in composition. Every patient is tagged, catalogued and put in a labelled container to wait its turn, and they do all the work themselves rather than sending it out. Written estimate before anything starts.

Mattel's own repair service for American Girl dolls, renamed in 2026 from the Doll Hospital to the Doll Care Center. Three tiers, from a refresh through to replacing two of head, body, torso or limbs, and every treatment comes back with a certificate of good health, a gown and socks. Their own dolls only.

Every Build-A-Bear store runs a Bear Hospital: stitching, restuffing, a brush and a clean bill of health, free, in about five minutes while you wait. There is one catch and it is a big one. They only take Build-A-Bear bears.

A national contents restoration franchise that works as part of the emergency response after a fire, flood or storm. Textiles, electronics and art, restored room by room with photo documentation, and billed through the insurance claim rather than by you. You reach them through an adjuster or a contractor.

A doll repair hospital that publishes what it calls a partial list of services and a flat 12.99 dollar return shipping fee, and takes Madame Alexander among others. The site has not been touched in a decade.

Making and restoring porcelain dolls since 1983, with a shop attached. They examine the doll, send you an estimate, and start nothing without approval. Restring American Girl dolls using factory methods, which is a specific enough claim to be worth something.

A stuffed animal restoration service run by Danielle, working to three set packages: full restoration at $250, partial at $190, and a $100 memorial package that cleans the toy and puts it in a custom memory envelope. Restorations run by appointment, the next slots open on 1 September 2026, and there is no fixed turnaround.

A doll repair practice with a before-and-after gallery, sitting inside a shop for antique doll clothes. They also run repair seminars with a class bring-list, and publish articles arguing professional doll repair against amateur doll repair, which is a fair question to have an answer to before you choose anybody.

A registered charity that restores donated dolls and gifts them to girls in children's homes or removed from their families, and takes paid repair work to fund it. Their doll doctor is the youngest member of the Doll Doctors Association and one of very few specialising in American Girl dolls.

Twenty years of contents restoration after fire, flood and storm, taking textiles alongside furniture, home electronics and artwork. Insurance work: you submit a claim, not an item.

A one-person home workshop in the US, run by Martha, that repairs and restores stuffed toys and nothing else, with a focus on collectible and antique mohair bears and animals. She works by post on a booked schedule, requires cleaning as part of the job, will not do partial repairs, and has a long published list of things she will not take on.

A national specialty restoration franchise covering electronics, art, documents and textiles for insurance claims. They argue in their own words that a favourite stuffed animal can mean more to somebody than its monetary worth, and price by process and labour rather than per piece, which they say keeps the claim cheaper.

A commercial laundry and restoration plant built around insurance work. They publish a 92 percent average restore rate over a million items processed, and they say plainly that they recover soft goods other cleaners write off. Every item is photographed, barcoded and graded restorable or not, priced against replacement cost.

An award-winning restoration plant for clothing and household fabrics damaged by fire, smoke, water or mould, working through insurers. Named American Drycleaner Magazine plant of the year in 1991 and rated the number one fabric restoration vendor by Contractor Connection in 2010 and 2014.

Tina runs a mail-in stuffed toy cleaning and restoration service, with a standard package that unstuffs, deep cleans, restuffs and brushes a toy, plus customisation on top. Enquiries have been closed since a wave of demand in 2021, and she also sells one-to-one video sessions teaching you to do the repair yourself.

A postal stuffed animal repair service started in 1983 by Sally Winey, working to three set packages: clean and restuff, stitching and part replacement, and full restoration. They rebuild missing limbs and take on dog-attack damage, and the price includes shipping the toy back to you.