Every listing was read from the business’s own public pages rather than from speaking to them, so check before you rely on it.

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Teddy bear and doll repair in Virginia

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

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Where they are

Charlottesville, Fredericksburg and Oakton. Two more do not name a town.

What kind of business

Three doll hospitals, one plush specialist, one alterations shop.

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. Two rebuild badly damaged pieces.

Prices they publish

  • Mar-Ke Mohair: minimum charge $100

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

In Virginia

  • Mar-Ke Mohair

    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.

    Their site

    In their words: “Though we focus on these collectible brands, we work on most types of plush toys (however, I do not work on dolls).”

    Virginia

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

    Said by appointmentquoted about 2 weeks thenread off their site yesterday

    takes it by post

  • Blue Thimble

    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.

    1780 Sourwood Pl, Charlottesville, VA 22911, United StatesTheir site

    Charlottesville

    you can hand it over

  • We ONLY repair American Girl Dolls!DDA member

    Listed in the Doll Doctors Association hospital locator, in Fredericksburg, VA. 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.

    Escape2faith@aol.com

    Fredericksburg

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

  • Our Mothers' Dolls, LLCDDA member

    Listed in the Doll Doctors Association hospital locator, in Oakton, VA. 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.

    (703) 629-8714mdwool@verizon.net

    Oakton

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

  • McHugh’s Restorations

    Listed in a published list of doll hospitals by state, in VA. 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.

    (804) 353-9596

    Virginia

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

Everywhere, including Virginia

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 Virginia as anywhere else.

The Doll Doctors Association lists 2 members in Virginia

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.

  • We ONLY repair American Girl Dolls!

    Fredericksburg · no website listed

  • Our Mothers' Dolls, LLC

    Oakton · 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.