Meet Best Years new wholesale rag doll and doudou producer

Our new rag dolls and doudous are finally in stock so we thought you might like to see how and where they are made

The range is the inspiration of Alice Poli, who is originally from Italy

She graduated in Fashion Design but then went to live in India

There she worked for 5 years at a Kindergarten until the birth of her son, Kamil in 2008

It was then that the idea of the dolls came, and why the range is called Kamomil. Alice wanted to combine her knowledge of design and her experience with children to create dolls and puppets.

The dolls are designed and made to the Waldorf Steiner method and where possible they are made with natural materials, like cotton, wool etc with no small parts used.

Each doll/puppet is unique because they are made completely by hand. The dolls may have the same colour of the hair, or the same dress, but, even between “twins” there are some differences.

Here are pictures of Alice hard at work making her lovely rag dolls

And here are pictures of her team, Chitra who is married with 4 daughters and who used to make sarees

 and the beautiful Sangeeta

As you can see this is a small, family run, workshop. There is no mass production and they cannot make large runs of dolls. As a wholesaler this suits us as we like to be able to offer unique hand made products like this.

If you want any more information, or if you wish to order, please email sales@bestyears.co.uk