ANGELA DAVEY

About Me - Ange

I am an experienced Seamstress with 35+ years sewing in domestic and industrial settings. I also knit & crochet, so you will find some cute additions for teddy bears in our shop.


I am highly skilled in hand-sewing and fine embroidery and have always been passionate about textile conservation and restoration throughout history. The intricate techniques they used and the level of detail is simply amazing. I own my own small collection of Teddy Bears including Steiff and Merrythought.

About Davey Bears

My wish is to save as many Teddies as possible; to restore memories of the past and to help create new ones for subsequent generations to come. It all started with an off the cuff remark from my husband, ‘you could do that, and I think you’d be brilliant’.  He knows I would do my utmost to help them back to life - Davey Bears Teddy and Soft Toy Hospital was born.

WE ARE PROUD MEMBERS OF

The British Toymakers Guild

The British Toymakers Guild is a Guild in the old sense; representing and encouraging the highest standards of craftsmanship and design. All members are at the top of their field, making imaginative, high quality, hand made toys. We invite you to explore the work of our members. You will be amazed at their extraordinary imagination and skill. Our skilled members are able to repair and restore wooden toys, dolls, and teddy bears. 

Ethos & Fabrics

The ethos of the Company is to treat every Patient to Davey Bears as a VIP and to care for them as if they were our own - they even have their own beds - this helps prevent cross contamination. We will go above and beyond to help wherever we can, do as little or as much as YOU want and strive to provide the best Customer Experience possible. Ange is always at the end of the phone to personally answer your questions.

With everything we do, we will have spoken extensively with the owner to take into consideration their wishes. We also carefully consider the age, maker and history of the Bear in order to execute the best possible clean, repair or sympathetic restoration so that your treasured Teddy Bear/Toy keeps their original character and charm intact. We don’t want to make a vintage bear look ‘new’. Teddies/Toys in our shop have been carefully restored using traditional methods and we strive to bring to you the new & exclusive Davey Bears brand alongside other high quality brands.

We will always use ‘like for like’ in any repair or restoration in order to get a good result. We do not repair sheepskin/real fur, or use real fur (sheepskin, mink etc) in any of our Bears. We are aiming to be as kind to the environment as possible. Our own Davey Bears will be mainly faux fur as we feel that the shearing techniques can be quite cruel and we cannot support this.

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