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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.