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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.