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Teddy bear and doll repair in North Carolina

4 businesses whose own websites say they are in North Carolina, plus 1 placed here by somebody other than them. One takes work in person.

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Where they are

New Bern and Pollocksville. Three more do not name a town.

What kind of business

Three doll hospitals, one plush specialist, one free repair cafe.

Getting it to them

One takes work in person, one takes it by post, three do not say how. Ring before you drive anywhere.

What they say they do

One says it repairs joints. One replaces eyes and noses. One rebuilds badly damaged pieces. One restores worn fur.

Prices they publish

  • Repair Café North Carolina: Everything, from $0

One of five publish a price for the work. The rest quote after they have seen it.

In North Carolina

  • Winey Bears Repair

    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.

    (704) 929-1880wineybearsrepair@gmail.com

    In their words: “There are instances where the material is simply too old to be repaired.”

    North Carolina

    Placed here by TeddyBears.org state list, not by them

    Said openquoted about 4 weeks thenread off their site yesterday

    takes it by post

  • Judy's Doll Hospital

    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.

    Their site

    New Bern

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

  • Repair Café North Carolina

    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.

    info@repaircafenc.org

    In their words: “We will have tools and experienced people who can work with you to find the best way to repair your item.”

    North Carolina

    Said by appointmentread off their site yesterday

    you can hand it over

  • Judy's Doll ShopDDA member

    Listed in the Doll Doctors Association hospital locator, in Pollocksville, NC. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

    (252) 637-7933jcgeorgebme@aol.com

    Pollocksville

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

  • Dolls & Designs by Sandi

    Listed in a published list of doll hospitals by state, in NC. The website the directory gives no longer loads. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

    (828) 893-0640

    North Carolina

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

Everywhere, including North Carolina

6 of these are national rather than local: a chain with a shop near most people, a restoration franchise dispatched to wherever the damage is, a manufacturer's own service. They are as available in North Carolina as anywhere else.

The Doll Doctors Association lists a member in North Carolina

We are not going to reprint their phone numbers here. Those were published by the association, about them, and passing them on second hand from a site they have never heard of is not ours to do. Their own locator is the list those people agreed to be on, and it is the one that gets kept up to date.

  • Judy's Doll Shop

    Pollocksville · no website listed

Their locator, with the contact details Read their guidance before you send anything. They say plainly: do not ship until the hospital has agreed to take it, and insure it for its replacement value both ways.

Or post it to one of these

23 businesses anywhere in the country say they take work by post. Before you send anything: of the 194 we have read, 2 say anything about insuring your item while it is with them. Insure the parcel yourself, both ways.