Every stuffed animal repair shop we hold

Anita, buying, selling and repairing dolls from 1880 to 1970 in Albuquerque since 1984. By appointment, and she is at three New Mexico doll and toy shows a year, which is a better way to meet her than the website.

A composition doll specialist, formerly trading as Arlington Doll Rescue, who also sells restored antique dolls. Composition is the sawdust-and-glue body material used before plastic, and it crazes and lifts in a way almost nobody else will take on. A Doll Doctors Association member.

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 custom sewing and alterations business in Charlottesville that repairs and duplicates stuffed animals alongside clothing, bridal, costume and soft furnishings. Duplicating is the unusual offer: they will make a second one, which is a different answer to a much-loved toy than repairing it.

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 doll hospital in Chino Valley, Arizona that restores antique, vintage and collectible dolls and also repairs teddy bears and stuffed animals. It started in South Dakota in 2008, aims to keep as much of the original character as it can, and asks you to get in touch for a consultation rather than publishing prices.

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 shop and doll hospital in Cobalt, Connecticut, open at weekends. It sells dolls, teddy bears and accessories, and lists repair and restoration as a service, though the page we read says nothing about what that covers or what it refuses.

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.

A one-person doll hospital in Lancaster County, trading since 1989 and open three days a week, with the repair work done at the owner's home workshop as well as the shop. It will look at an animal as well as a doll, and will give a first opinion from photographs by email.

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.

Judy George's doll hospital in New Bern. The whole crawled site is a warm paragraph about the town and its history, and says nothing at all about what she repairs, what it costs, or whether she is taking work.

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.

A small craft studio that repairs stuffed animals and soft sculpture, originally set up to cover warranty work on its own 'MY KIDS' toys and now taking in other makers' items too. You email photos first, they propose a replacement fabric, and stuffing is replaced with polyester fibre fill unless you ask about other options.

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 charity running free community repair events across nine North Carolina areas, with a strand called Stitching Stuffies aimed at teaching children to mend their own soft toys and take them home the same day. Free, volunteer-run, and the right answer for a split seam on something modern rather than anything old or valuable.

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 doll hospital in Riverdale Park run by Emily Fanning, who has been restoring antique and modern dolls since the 1960s and has had a shop in the town centre since 1992. It is open by appointment only, and the shop sells dolls and dolls' houses alongside the repair work.

Celia Baham, an award-winning bear designer and pattern author of more than twenty-five years, who also takes on bear restoration and conservation. Named in the Susan Quinlan Doll and Teddy Bear Museum's own conservation links list, which is a recommendation from inside the trade.

A long-running doll and teddy bear hospital that took in broken porcelain dolls and torn teddy bears from a small store, and has been working from home since closing during the pandemic. Contact and in-person visits are handled by email, and visits have to be booked in advance.

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.

Primarily a supplier of doll parts, wigs and eyes to other repairers, which also takes in repairs and restorations of its own. The site is built around the shop, and the repair service is a page within it rather than the main business.

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 with a shopfront in Old Town Spring, north of Houston. The site gives an address, a phone number and opening hours, and very little else: there is no service list, no price guide and no description of what they will or will not take on.

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.

A doll shop in Yuba City with a doll hospital section, running alongside doll recycling, customisation, adoption and a very large parts inventory of wigs, eyes, shoes and clothes. The parts stock is the interesting part: a repairer with 19 sizes of wig in stock can match something a smaller workshop would have to fake.

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.

A maker of memory bears and custom teddies who also takes in repairs of teddy bears and other soft toys, and turns vintage fur coats into jointed bears. The site is almost entirely gallery: there is no process, no price and no location anywhere on it.

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 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.

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.

Beth repairs and rejuvenates cloth dolls, teddy bears and other stuffed animals, and has been doing it for over 20 years. She gives a free estimate first and does not start work until you have approved it, and her patients range from a few months old to nearly a century.

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.