article_snippet.sent: Unblinking eyes stare from decapitated heads and loose limbs are piled up on the shelves in what looks like a little shop of horrors.
article_snippet.sent: But what appears to be the final resting place of childhood toys is, in fact, a hospital where dolls in need of repair are given a new lease of life.
article_snippet.sent: Hundreds of disembodied dolls and decapitated heads are piled up on the shelves of the shop, where Hundreds of disembodied dolls and decapitated heads are given a new lease of life .
article_snippet.sent: But soon the dolls began to take over the shop.
article_snippet.sent: The mother and son team painstakingly restores hundreds of toys - carefully mending decapitated heads and re-attaching the limbs.
article_snippet.sent: Now hundreds of disembodied toys are stacked on the shelves.
article_snippet.sent: Federico said: 'We started to restore dolls heads because dolls heads required the same methods as porcelain - the same colours, and so on.'
article_snippet.sent: But soon the dolls took over .
article_snippet.sent: Ceramics, children's toys and mosaics cover every surface of the doll hospital .
article_snippet.sent: What looks like the final resting place of a child's plaything is really a place where some of hundreds of disembodied toys are given a new lease of life . '
article_snippet.sent: The mother and son team painstakingly restores hundreds of toys - carefully mending the porcelain heads and re-attaching the limbs .
article_snippet.sent: Heads and bodies: 'We started to restore dolls heads because dolls heads required the same methods as porcelain - the same colours, and so on'
highlights_snippet.sent: Heads and loose limbs are piled up on the shelves in the doll hospital, known as Ospedale delle Bambole in Rome .
  