With this beautiful Dollbelge© DIY kit, you can create your own soft cuddle doll, inspired by the Waldorf doll-making tradition and based on the book Sunshine Dolls. The kit is very beginner-friendly and includes carefully selected, high-quality materials – among them the exclusive Dollbelge premium cotton fabrics illustrated by Daniela Drescher.
This kit is the result of an exclusive collaboration between Mercurius, Dollbelge and the authors and editors of the book Sunshine Dolls.
Please note that instructions are not included. One can search for online tutorials on the internet, or refer to dollmaking books.
What is a cuddle doll?
A cuddle doll is often a child’s very first doll: simple, soft and comforting. Its flexible body and fixed outfit make it easy to hold, carry and cuddle. The calm design and gentle shape invite imaginative play and companionship, while offering a reassuring presence in a young child’s everyday world.
This DIY kit contains:
Available in three versions. Suitable for ages 14 and up for dollmaking.
This wonderful kit is perfect for anyone who would like to create their first handmade doll with care, warmth and creativity. It pairs beautifully with the book Sunshine Dolls, available for sale separately. We wholeheartedly recommend it as the essential first book for anyone beginning — or wishing to deepen — their practice of Waldorf-inspired doll making.
*** Not included: Don’t forget to add natural wool filling to your order. You will need approximately 150 grams of wool filling to stuff the doll with.
Made in Belgium.
We founded our family enterprise in 1985. In the beginning, we only ran a small manual spinning plant and our wool combing works. Then we added our plant colour dyeing mill.
1985 | Founding of Filges' Manual Spinning Plant
1991 | Purchase of our first carding machine
1994 | Opening of our shop in Steinhagen
1996 | Bioland-certification
1998 | Removal of the dyeing mill to the Eco-Tec-Park
1998 | Renaming to Wollmanufaktur Filges ("Wool Factory Filges")
2007 | Inauguration of the manufacturing plant in Wallenhorst
We only use German wool. We produce exclusively in Germany, using plant based dyes.
The principles that rule our personal life also apply in the manufacturing and distribution of our products: We want to use and to produce sustainable, ecological and emission-free products.
We use only renewable resources. We guarantee the eco-friendliness of our production processes.
Since 1995 we are a Bioland-certified manufacturer of sheep wool, and since 2015 we are a member of the IVN (Internationaler Verband der Naturtextilwirtschaft, International Association of Natural Textiles). Our wool comes exclusively from sheep raised in certified organic animal husbandry in Germany. Our dyes are plant-based. For mordants we use alum and tartar.
Enjoy the naturalness of our products as we do!
Wollmanufaktur Filges sees itself as an active part of a community shaped by the mutual respect of its members. Our intent is to act in an environmentally sustainable manner in order to preserve natural resources, avoid harmful effects upon nature and mankind and promote biodiversity.
In order to make these goals traceable for consumers, our company is Bioland-certified since 1996. You can look up the Bioland standards to gain an impression of what this means in detail. Furthermore, we not only design our products to be natural and unharmful to one's health, but also want them to be valuable in a social sense.
Lastly, we attach major importance to the fact that, if possible, all raw goods used during production come from Germany. This is the only way for us to ensure that unnecessary climate-damaging transports are avoided and that we do not support non-transparent or unethical working conditions.
