We are a family-owned business based in Australia who adore the job of designing lifelike toys that create a connection. We endeavour to turn them from toys to animal companions. We design them in-house with love to provide a lifetime of cuddles ensuring that every single forever-friend is soft and furry — made to be stroked, loved, and petted.
Giovanni Bocchetta is interviewd by newspaper
Bocchetta Plush Toys was established in 1948, in Arona, a small town on Lake Maggiore, in Piemont, a Region in northwest Italy.
Our founders are Giovanni Bocchetta and Clementina Ottobrini. Giovanni was a wood designer by trade and Celementina was a seamstress who, as a young girl, understudied as a seamstress and designer in a tailor’s shop.
The young couple met at a doll factory where they both worked. Giovanni was a traveling toy-salesman and involved in the manufacturing process and Clementina was in charge of the cutting and sewing departments for rag dolls.
They got married in 1941, during the Second World War, and continued to work at the factory until they decided, in 1948, to start up their own small business.
Bocchetta Plush Toys began on the ground floor of their home – where they lived with their two little children, Maria Lina and Luigi. It was an old villa, named Isola Caprera (so-called by its former owner, a veteran of Garibaldi’s army of the Risorgimento War for the Unity of Italy in the Seventeenth Century). The building stood in the middle of a great meadow surrounded by a private boundary hedge mixed with honeysuckle flowers. The villa had an orchard with several fruit trees and a vegetable garden which fed the family during the start-up phase of their business.
Our customers have counted on us for more than half a century to design beautiful, child-friendly, non-allergenic, machine-washable plush animals to engage the imagination of the young and the young-at-heart.
We are devoted to detail and our unique designs produce lifelike wholesale plush animals which delight children and soft toy collectors.
We are passionate about creating joy, comfort, and connection to people who can’t have their own living animals. We love that our forever fallinlovable Furtastic Friends can be used as therapy for people suffering from anxiety, autism, Asperger’s, dementia, depression, and other mental health issues.
We are also passionate about promoting conservation and supporting wildlife through our Australian animals. We love it that our toys can make a difference.
Our mission is to bring smiles, happiness, and joy to people of all ages, and know that the love of a Bocchetta toy will last forever.
We pride ourselves on designing our own unique range of friendly FurTastic Friends.
We are devoted to detail and our unique designs produce lifelike plush animals which delight people of all ages and soft toy collectors
An ethical supply chain is of the utmost importance to us. We ensure that our factories subscribe to the ICTI Ethical Toy Program which requires them to uphold minimum standards to support the rights and well-being of factory workers. The audits address discrimination, disciplinary practices, employee representation, employee practices, environmental and chemical safety, modern slavery, workplace safety, underage labour, wages, and working hours.
Our devoted attention to detail and unique designs produce lifelike stuffed animal toys that turn the love lights on in the eyes of children and soft toy collectors of every age.High density 850-1100 gsm acrylic material is used to make our fabulous plushies. This makes them much safer than those made with polyester, given that high-density fur does not ‘malt’ and is difficult to pull off.
Our especially chosen, made and dyed fabrics make our toys super soft. The colours are bright and consistent because these premium quality high-density fabrics absorb and retain inks.
On the production side, our factories only use highly skilled sewing staff capable of great intricacy in their work. Most of our animal toys have additional panels which help to make them look more realistic.
FurTastic Friends will be loved, fed, and invited to join many messy, dirty games. To keep them looking (and smelling) their best, give them a good shake and brush them with a regular pet brush.
They can be placed in a plastic bag with cornflour — shaken, removed and then dusted off to remove light dust and dirt. Be mindful not to add water during this procedure.
Deal with a spill immediately. Shake the toy outside or over a towel and then use a damp sponge to blot or cloth to wipe any leftover residue away. Finish by blotting with a dry towel. Repeat as necessary.
Our toys can also be thrown into a washing machine. Best is to use a low-temperature on a gentle cycle in Woolite, Dr. Bronner’s, Johnson and Johnson Baby Shampoo, or your preferred hypoallergenic washing detergent. Putting the toy inside the leg of a pair of women’s nylon hose, a pillowcase, or a laundry bag will protect your washing machine from any stray fur.
Leave out in the sun to dry.
The toys can also be dry-cleaned.
We have a wonderful team who truly believe in the value of our products
FurTastic Friends are uniquely handcrafted by Bocchetta Plush Toys. We are a family-owned business, based in Australia, who adore the job of designing lifelike toys that create a connection. We endeavor to turn them from toys to animal companions. We design them with love to provide a lifetime of cuddles ensuring that every single forever friend is soft and furry and made to be stroked, loved and petted.
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FurTastic Friends are uniquely handcrafted by Bocchetta Plush Toys. We are a family-owned business, based in Australia, who adore the job of designing lifelike toys that create a connection.
