Bamboletta Dolls
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Christina Mattiello and her team sew one-of-a-kind Waldorf dolls with hand-dyed wool hair and embroidered faces, in five sizes from a 10-inch Little Buddy to a 19-inch Forever Friend.
Temporarily Pausing US OrdersSource: bamboletta.com, Sep 9, 2026
Dolls carry the US Section 338 duty of 50% as of August 22, 2026. Bamboletta's home page now leads with a banner reading Temporarily Pausing US Orders, uploaded to the shop on August 23, 2026, the day after the duty took effect.
In their own words
Temporarily Pausing US Orders
Bamboletta · bamboletta.com
Bamboletta's home page carries a banner telling shoppers it has temporarily stopped taking orders from the United States.
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Made in Canada
The dolls are cut, stuffed and sewn by the Bamboletta team on Canada's west coast, stuffed with western Canadian wool and made from natural materials sourced locally where possible.
On the tariff list
- HTS 9503.00.00 · Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dollsʼ carriages; dolls, other toys; reduced-scale (“scaleˮ) models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds; parts and accessories thereof · 50% since Aug 22, 2026
Cloth Waldorf dolls sewn in Canada: "Sitting Friend ... 15" long ... Stuffed with natural, western Canadian wool ... Made with lots of love by Team Bamboletta in Canada"
Rates are the additional US duty under Section 338. About the tariffs
Sources
- bamboletta.com · accessed 2026-09-09
Bamboletta Dolls, 1723 Grant Street, Vancouver, BC, V5L 2Y6 Canada
- bamboletta.com · accessed 2026-09-09
Stuffed with natural, western Canadian wool
- bamboletta.com · accessed 2026-09-09
There are now 24 ladies that work together and each do their own, equally important part to make Bamboletta's dolls what they are.
- bamboletta.com · accessed 2026-09-09
All the materials we use are natural, and sourced locally as much as possible. We use local wool to stuff the dolls, and raw yarns to hand-dye and hand-spin.
- bamboletta.com · accessed 2026-09-09
I cut up my then husband's t-shirt for doll skin, clipped down my IKEA sheepskin rug for stuffing, and made my first doll.
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