B & T Porcelain Dolls began when two sisters with a love of doll-making decided it was time to venture out on their own.  Actually, it began when their step-mother started giving them a doll each year for Christmas.  Each year, we (the sisters), found more and more dolls that we liked and more and more dolls that we wanted our step-mother to make for us.  Finally, she decided it was time for us to learn how to make dolls on our own.  Susan, the older sister, went to a doll class in Morganton, NC at World of Dolls.  She decided she liked it.  She then found out that there was a doll shop called Little Bits located in her hometown of Chester, SC and that they offered classes.  She then proceeded to talk her mother, Ann and sister, Ruthayn into taking a class with her as a girls night out and family time.  Once we began taking classes, we were hooked.  The owner of the shop, Ursula Butler, often hired them to help fill orders she received.  She paid them by letting them make another doll at cost.  This went on for several years and the sisters decided it was time to open their own shop.  The owner of the old shop decided she no longer wanted to teach doll-making because she had been doing it for 10 years and decided that the sisters were the ones who should take over the shop.  The name was changed to B & T Porcelain Dolls and is now owned and operated by the sisters, Susan Treveiler and Ruthayn Burdette.  Their mother, Ann now does much of the sewing and their step-mother, Pat does much of the selling.

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