Plush bear biography

How the teddy bear Teddy Daria Bryantseva and not only a children's inventor and artist was born, he was a designer in the family company his aunt Margaret. Thus, the Teddy was born - an indispensable attribute of the children's room, which at first bore the boring "production" name 55 RV 55 cm - its "growth", and the RV - the first letters of the German words "plush" and "mobile".

Margaret Stef. Exactly years ago, on July 24, a girl was born in an ordinary German family Stef. When Margaret was two years old, the doctors made her a disappointing diagnosis - paralysis. The girl was destined to move in a wheelchair all her life. However, this never prevented her from enjoying life and doing what she liked. And she liked to sew. In the year, the Stef family opened in the town of Gingen their own store, in which costumes and different things that were useful in the household were sewn to order.

Margaret "specialized" in felt. And in the year a truly historical event took place: Margaret Steif first sewed a toy. It was a small rag elephant who immediately fell in love with the little residents of Gingen, who passed by her shop.

At the family council, it was decided to sew toys in the mass order. Steiff's enterprise was growing. More than five thousand rag elephants were sold in the year. The company began to produce other soft toys, and by the end of the 19th century the first catalog of its products appeared. For small and large at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nephew Margarte Stef Richard, who had finished the school of fine arts in Stuttgart, had come to work at the enterprise.

In search of ideas to create models of new toys, he spent days in the zoo near Gingen, watched animals and made sketches. In the year, according to the sketch of Richard Steif, the first teddy bear was sewn in world history, whose paws moved and the head spun. The toy was a fantastic success at international trade fairs. Later, the teddy bear came up with the name - Teddy.

Why Teddy? In honor of the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, who always adored the bear hunting, but once, according to eyewitnesses, seeing a little bear in the forest, he lowered his gun and never shot animals again. Steiff brand gradually gained world fame. Demand for plush bears grew up with almost every month. By the end of the first decade of the twentieth century, Steiff began to produce more than a million copies annually.

More and more new models have appeared: in hats and caps, with neck scarves, in pants and skirts, in glasses, on a scooter, with a book in hands an incredible variety! Today, more than a dozen designers operate in Steiff. The assortment of various models now. But the main product is still the Teddy bear. But today there are a lot of adults among fans of company products.

Now around the world there are more than 50 thousand collectors of plush bears. A few years ago, one of the rare specimens was sold to a collector from Korea for almost thousands of euros. "See also:.