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Lamb refuses to scale. “If I ever use a machine seam,” she says, “call the authorities.” On her worktable sits a rabbit missing a leg — a “mending commission” from a woman whose husband carried the rabbit through chemotherapy. “She didn’t want a new one,” Lamb says. “She wanted the same scars.”

This is not a toy. It is a — a hand-sewn, one-of-a-kind cloth creature that collectors have begun calling “the anti-Beanie Baby.” The Backstory A former costume designer for independent theatre, Lamb (b. 1984) started making rabbits out of necessity. “I couldn’t find a stuffed animal that didn’t fall apart or feel cold,” she says. Her first rabbit — made from a worn-out wool blazer and stuffed with raw cotton — became a gift for a friend’s child. Twenty years later, that same rabbit is still intact, now frayed at the paws, deeply loved. mariza lamb rabbit

Collectors call the phenomenon — the melancholic gap between ordering and receiving, as each is made to order. Lamb refuses to scale