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A teddy bear, or simply a teddy, is a
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in the form of a
bear Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family (biology), family Ursidae (). They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans. Although only eight species of bears are extant, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats ...
. The teddy bear was named by
Morris Michtom Morris Michtom (September 12, 1869 – July 21, 1938) was a Russian-born businessman and inventor who, with his wife Rose, also a Russian Jewish immigrant who lived in Brooklyn, founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company. Michtom came up with ...
after the 26th president of the United States,
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T.R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York (state), New York politics, incl ...
; it was developed apparently simultaneously in the first decade of the 20th century by two toymakers:
Richard Steiff Richard Steiff (7 February 1877 – 30 March 1939) was a German designer, known for creating one of the first teddy bears. In 1897, he joined Steiff, a stuffed toy company founded in his hometown Giengen by his aunt Margarete Steiff, and beca ...
in Germany and Michtom in the United States. It became a popular children's toy, and it has been celebrated in story, song, and film. Since the creation of the first teddy bears (which sought to imitate the form of real bear cubs), "teddies" have greatly varied in form, style, color, and material. They have become
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, with older and rarer teddies appearing at public auctions. Teddy bears are among the most popular gifts for children, and they are often given to adults to signify affection, congratulations, or sympathy.


History

The name ''teddy'' ''bear'' comes from
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T.R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York (state), New York politics, incl ...
, the 26th
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, who was often referred to as "Teddy" (a nickname he loathed). The name originated from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in the
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of
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in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by
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, the 35th
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. There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had already killed an animal. A party of Roosevelt's attendants, led by
Holt Collier Holt Collier (c. 1848 – August 1, 1936) was a noted African-American bear hunter and sportsman. While leading a hunt for U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt in November 1902, Collier unwittingly set the stage for the event that originated Roosev ...
, cornered, clubbed, and tied an
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to a willow tree after a long and exhausting chase with
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s. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot the bear dead, although Collier told Roosevelt not to shoot the bear while it was tied. Roosevelt refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike, but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery, and it became the topic of a
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by
Clifford Berryman Clifford Kennedy Berryman (April 2, 1869 – December 11, 1949) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist with ''The Washington Star'' newspaper from 1907 to 1949. He was previously a cartoonist for ''The Washington Post'' from 1891 to 1907. Dur ...
in ''
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'' on November 16, 1902. While the initial cartoon of an adult
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lassoed by a handler and a disgusted Roosevelt had symbolic overtones, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the bear smaller and cuter.
Morris Michtom Morris Michtom (September 12, 1869 – July 21, 1938) was a Russian-born businessman and inventor who, with his wife Rose, also a Russian Jewish immigrant who lived in Brooklyn, founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company. Michtom came up with ...
saw the Berryman drawing of Roosevelt and was inspired to create a teddy bear. He created a small soft bear cub and put it in his candy-shop window at 404 Tompkins Avenue in
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with a sign reading "Teddy's bear." The toys were an immediate success and Michtom founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co. A little earlier in 1902 in Germany, the Steiff firm produced a stuffed bear from
Richard Steiff Richard Steiff (7 February 1877 – 30 March 1939) was a German designer, known for creating one of the first teddy bears. In 1897, he joined Steiff, a stuffed toy company founded in his hometown Giengen by his aunt Margarete Steiff, and beca ...
's designs. Steiff exhibited the toy at the Leipzig Toy Fair in March 1903, where it was seen by Hermann Berg, a buyer for George Borgfeldt & Company in New York (and the brother of the composer
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). He ordered 3,000 to be sent to the United States. Although Steiff's records show that the bears were produced, they are not recorded as arriving in the U.S., and no example of the type, "55 PB", has ever been seen, leading to the story that the bears were
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ed. However, the shipwreck story is disputed – the author Günther Pfeiffer notes that it was only recorded in 1953 and says it is more likely that the 55 PB was not sufficiently durable to survive until the present day. Although Steiff and Michtom were both making teddy bears at around the same time, neither would have known of the other's creation due to poor
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communication. The American writer
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wrote the children's book series ''The Roosevelt Bears'', while the American composer John W. Bratton wrote an instrumental "
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", a "characteristic two-step", in 1907, which later had words written to it by the Irish lyricist
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in 1932. Early teddy bears were made to look like real bears, with extended snouts and beady eyes. Modern teddy bears tend to have larger eyes and foreheads and smaller noses, which are babylike features intended to enhance the toy's "
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". Some teddy bears are also designed to represent different species, such as
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s and
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s, as well as
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and
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s. While early teddy bears were covered in tawny
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fur, modern teddy bears are manufactured in a wide variety of commercially available
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s, most commonly
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, but also
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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.


Production


Commercial

Commercially made, mass-produced teddy bears are predominantly made as toys for children. These bears either have safety joints for attaching arms, legs, and heads, or else the joints are sewn and not articulated. They must have securely fastened eyes that do not pose a choking hazard for small children. These "plush" bears must meet a rigid standard of construction in order to be marketed to children in the United States and in the European Union. The
Vermont Teddy Bear Company The Vermont Teddy Bear Company (VTB) is one of the largest producers of teddy bears and the largest seller of teddy bears by mail order and Internet. The company handcrafts each of its teddy bears and produces almost 500,000 teddy bears each year ...
in the U.S. is one of the world's largest specialty marketers of teddy bears. There are also companies, like Steiff, that sell handmade collectible bears that can be purchased in stores or over the Internet. The majority of teddy bears are manufactured in countries with low production costs, such as China and Indonesia. A few small, single-person producers in the United States make unique, non-mass-produced teddy bears. In the
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one small, traditional teddy bear company remains,
Merrythought Merrythought is a toy manufacturing company established in 1930 in the United Kingdom. The company specialises in soft toys, especially teddy bears. Merrythought has handmade traditional teddy bears in the World Heritage Site of Ironbridge, Te ...
, which was established in 1930.
Mohair Mohair (pronounced ) originated from the Arabic word …هيرand it is a fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat (not Angora wool from the fur of the Angora rabbit). Both durable and resilient, mohair is lustrous with high shee ...
, the fur shorn or combed from a breed of long haired goats, is woven into cloth, dyed and trimmed. File:Making of a teddy bear 1 cutting.jpg, 1: Cutting File:Making of a teddy bear 2 sewing and turning.jpg, 2: Sewing and turning File:Making of a teddy bear 3 filling.jpg, 3: Filling File:Making of a teddy bear 4 assembling.jpg, 4: Assembling


Amateur

Teddy bears are a favourite form of soft toy for amateur toy makers, with many patterns commercially produced or available online. Many "teddies" are home-made as gifts or for charity, while "teddy bear artists" often create "teddies" for retail, decorating them individually with commercial and recycled ornaments such as sequins, beads and ribbons. Sewn teddy bears are made from a wide range of materials including
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,
cotton Cotton (), first recorded in ancient India, is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure ...
and
velour Velour, occasionally velours, is a plush, knits, knitted fabric or textile similar to velvet or velveteen. It can be made from polyester, spandex, cotton, or a cotton-polyester blend. Velour is used in a wide variety of applications, including ...
. While many are stitched, others are made from
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, either
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or
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ed.


Cultural impact

Retail sales of stuffed plush animals including teddy bears totaled US$1.3 billion in 2006, with manufacturers including
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and Ty Inc. Teddy bear plush toys have enjoyed ongoing popularity, complete with specialty retailers such as Teddy Atelier Stursberg and
Vermont Teddy Bear Company The Vermont Teddy Bear Company (VTB) is one of the largest producers of teddy bears and the largest seller of teddy bears by mail order and Internet. The company handcrafts each of its teddy bears and produces almost 500,000 teddy bears each year ...
, as well as
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chains including
Build-A-Bear Workshop Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. is an American retailer headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri that sells teddy bears, stuffed animals, and characters. During store visits, customers go through an interactive process where the stuffed animal of their ...
.


Museums

The world's first teddy bear museum was set up in
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, England, in 1984. In 1990, a similar foundation was set up in
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,
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, United States. These were closed in 2006 and 2005 respectively, and the bears were sold in auctions, but there are many teddy bear museums around the world today.


Emergency services

Because police, fire and medical officials found that giving a teddy bear to a child during a crisis stabilized and calmed them, NAPLC created the Teddy Bear Cops program to distribute teddy bears to police, fire, and medical responders throughout the United States.


April Fools' Day

On
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1972, issue 90 of ''
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'' published a paper on the diseases of ''Brunus edwardii'' detailing common afflictions of teddy bears.


World's largest teddy bear

The largest teddy bear measures 19.41 m (63 ft 8 in) in length and was constructed by Municipio de Xonacatlán, Ideas por México and Agrupación de Productores de Peluche (all Mexico), in Estado de México, on 28 April 2019. The bear was displayed at the local stadium in the city of Xonacatlán, and was made with the same materials as a commercially available teddy bear, including details such as a tiara, dress, eyes, and nose.


Billy Possum

The Billy Possum was a plush toy created after
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won the
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. The toy was a stuffed possum, made to replace the teddy bear. The possum was chosen because of Taft's love for "possum and taters", and as a symbol of southern pride. Toy companies making them advertised using slogans predicting the end of teddy bear popularity. Those around Taft theorized that he would be remembered in a similar way as Roosevelt with a popular toy. However, the Billy Possum plush toy didn't achieve the same level of popularity or enduring legacy, and the toy's production and impact were minimal in comparison.


In popular culture

* The original toy inspired
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to compose the melody to "
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" in 1907, with lyrics by
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added in 1932. *''
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'' comic has appeared in ''Daily Express'' since November 1920. *
Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Edward Bear, Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by ...
is based on a teddy bear owned by
Christopher Robin Milne Christopher Robin Milne (21 August 1920 – 20 April 1996) was an English author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories ...
, the son of the author
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; the character first appeared in a 1926 children's book and has been adapted by
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for animated shorts since 1966. * The Tubby Bear family from
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's Noddy series, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Tubby Bear, their son Master Tubby Bear, and their niece Tessie Bear. * ''
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'' began broadcasting on British television in 1955. * "
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" was a number one hit for
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in 1957. *
Paddington Bear Paddington Bear (though his name is just Paddington; the "Bear" simply serves to confirm his species; and also known as Paddington Brown for some sources) is a fictional character in British children's literature. He first appeared on 13 October ...
is based on a teddy bear purchased by the British author
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, first appearing in a 1958 children's book. *
Rilakkuma is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company San-X and created by Aki Kondo. San-X portrays Rilakkuma as an anthropomorphized teddy bear close to his bear friends Korilakkuma and Chairoikoguma, along with a bird Kiiroitori. After the ...
is a teddy bear which debuted in Japan in 2003. * ''
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'' is a 1968 children's book based on an anthropomorphic teddy bear in a department store. *
SuperTed ''SuperTed'' is a Welsh language superhero animated television series about an anthropomorphic teddy bear with superpowers, created by writer and animator Mike Young. Originally created by him as a series of stories to help his son overcome h ...
is a superhero teddy bear in an animated television series first airing in 1982. *
Care Bears Care Bears are multi-colored bears, painted in 1981 by artist Elena Kucharik to be used on greeting cards from American Greetings. They were turned into plush teddy bears and featured in ''The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings'' (1983) and ...
were first produced as colorful plush teddy bears in 1983. *
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has been the mascot for Children in Need since 1985. *
Teddy Ruxpin Teddy Ruxpin is an electronic children's toy in the form of a talking bear-like creature known as an 'Illiop'. The toy's mouth and eyes move while he tells stories about his adventures played on an audio tape cassette deck built into his back. ...
was the best-selling toy of 1985 and 1986. *
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is a knitted toy oddity in the 1990s sitcom ''Mr. Bean''. * Misery Bear was featured in a series of fourteen shorts for the
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website between 2009 and 2012. * ''
Naughty Bear ''Naughty Bear'' is a 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Canadian studio Artificial Mind and Movement and released by Italian publisher 505 Games for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and iOS. The game is set on the fictional Perfection Is ...
'' (2010), and its 2012 sequel ''Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise'', are video games based on an anthropomorphic teddy bear who seeks revenge on the other bears that ostracised him. * '' Ted'', bases its adult comedy on a teddy bear come to life. * ''
Teddy Teddy is an English language given name, usually a hypocorism of Edward or Theodore or Theodora. It may refer to: People Nickname * Teddy Atlas (born 1956), American boxing trainer and fight commentator * Teddy Bourne (born 1948), British Olym ...
'' is a 2021 Tamil-language fantasy action film. * '' Imaginary'' is a 2024 film produced by
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and directed by
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. The movie revolves around a
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teddy bear that befriends a child.


References


External links


The great teddy bear shipwreck mystery
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