What Your Custom Plush Costs

A custom plush from our studio starts at $350. Each toy is handmade to order and priced on its own, by its size and detail, and the quote is free.

A plush from a department store can cost $20, so it’s a fair question. Here’s where the money goes when you order a custom plush toy from us instead.

The short version: nobody else gets your toy. There’s no ready stock and no shelf. We draw a pattern for one toy, sew it by hand and show it to you before it ships.

Size and detail. A bigger toy usually costs more, and so does one with an outfit, a painted face or lots of small parts.

Custom toys start from $350. Replicas of lost childhood toys are a separate service, and a cheaper one: they start from $295. A plush of your original character starts from $400, and a fully dressed collector doll can run to $2,500. Send us a picture and we’ll name the real price before you pay anything.

Our Ted bear is 160 cm tall. Next to a person you can see why a toy like that takes more fabric and more hours than a 30 cm one.

Ted, 160 cm of cream fleece. Size is the first thing that moves the price.

A factory designs a teddy bear once, then cuts ten thousand from the same pattern. The design cost almost disappears.

We start from zero every time. You send a child’s drawing, a photo of your dog, a game screenshot or a sketch on a napkin. Our maker works out how that flat picture becomes a toy that stands up, keeps its shape and feels right in your hands, then draws a pattern for that one toy.

No one else will order it, so the design cost isn’t split ten thousand ways. It’s in your price. See more toys we’ve sewn from drawings.

The drawing a child sent us.

The rainbow elephant plush we sewed from it.

A custom toy usually takes 2–4 weeks to make. A human likeness, a hand-painted face or wire inside for posing can add more time.

Every piece is cut by hand and pinned until the outline matches your picture. The small things take longest: the curve of a cartoon smile, the droop of a dog’s ear, the tilt of a doll’s eyebrow. A millimetre off, and it looks like someone else.

Our goose from a sketch shows it well: lace on the skirt, a string of pearls, a cameo, fabric flowers on her head and a little golden flute.

A goose sewn from one sketch. Every detail on her was chosen for one customer.

A factory buys one fabric by the ton. We shop for each toy separately, because each one is different.

One toy can need five or six materials: minky for the body, velboa for the belly, felt for small details, safety eyes, hypoallergenic stuffing and strong thread for the seams. We use faux fur only, never natural fur.

Small amounts of premium fabric bought for one toy cost more than a container of the same polyester. That’s part of the price too.

A teddy from a sketch in navy patterned fabric, with a floral vest sewn for him.

We’ve been making toys to order since 2009, more than 2,100 of them. Everyone who sews in the studio has been making toys for over ten years.

That experience shows up in small decisions: which fabric holds the shape of a long dragon tail and which one flops, how a crayon drawing gets a body, how a portrait doll ends up looking like the person in the photo. You pay for the weeks of sewing, and for the years it took to learn how. Browse the portfolio to see the range.

• A pattern drawn for your toy, from nothing.
• Materials chosen for it: colours, textures, faux fur where it fits.
• Weeks of hand sewing by makers with years of practice.
• Photos before it ships. When the toy is finished, you see it. If something looks off, we change it and you look again.
• A full refund on personal orders. If you don’t love the toy, tell us within 14 days of delivery. You get your money back and you keep the toy. See our guarantee.

Delivery is separate. We ship worldwide, and regular post usually costs $50–60, depending on the toy’s size, where you live and the courier. It usually takes 7–20 business days. The steps are on how we work.

Business orders, like mascots and prototypes, work differently. They’re made to a contract and an agreed spec, so the personal refund doesn’t cover them. Details are on Plush Prototypes.

Three customers, in their own words.

“Your company produces ‘the’ finest plush dolls in the world.”

Dex, USA, about his Rugby Tiger plush. Read his letter

“I am now thoroughly convinced that your Grover rendition is The Best Ever.”

Kal, Canada, about his Grover plush. Read his review

“After being disappointed with other plush makers we were delighted to see samples and positive testimonials about Skazkodrom … and decided to give them a try. They are very skilled and worked with us to bring the 2D drawing of Lucy our pink gorilla character alive.”

Alex Kim, Seattle, USA, about Lucy, the pink gorilla plush of his brand’s character. Read his review

Send it with the size you have in mind. We’ll reply with a real price and a time estimate.

Custom toys start from $350.
A bigger size or extra details can cost more.