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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.