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Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) (USD $)
12 Months Ended
Jan. 03, 2015
Dec. 28, 2013
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Deferred Tax Assets, Valuation Allowance $ 15,572,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance $ 20,987,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsValuationAllowance
Operating Loss Carryforwards, Valuation Allowance (4,400,000)us-gaap_OperatingLossCarryforwardsValuationAllowance  
Deferred Tax Assets, Tax Credit Carryforwards 4,250,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsTaxCreditCarryforwards 5,453,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsTaxCreditCarryforwards
Undistributed Earnings of Foreign Subsidiaries 11,000,000us-gaap_UndistributedEarningsOfForeignSubsidiaries  
Unrecognized Tax Benefits 1,000,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits 700,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, Income Tax Penalties and Interest Expense 300,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestExpense 100,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncomeTaxPenaltiesAndInterestExpense
Unrecognized Tax Benefits that Would Impact Effective Tax Rate 700,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRate  
Significant Change in Unrecognized Tax Benefits is Reasonably Possible, Amount of Unrecorded Benefit 500,000us-gaap_SignificantChangeInUnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIsReasonablyPossibleAmountOfUnrecordedBenefit  
State And Foreign Net Operating Loss Carryforwards [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Operating Loss Carryforwards, Valuation Allowance 4,300,000us-gaap_OperatingLossCarryforwardsValuationAllowance
/ us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceByDeferredTaxAssetAxis
= bbw_StateAndForeignNetOperatingLossCarryforwardsMember
 
Foreign Tax Authority [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Valuation Allowance, Deferred Tax Asset, Increase (Decrease), Amount $ 1,100,000us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount
/ us-gaap_IncomeTaxAuthorityAxis
= us-gaap_ForeignCountryMember
 
IRELAND | Start Year [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Open Tax Year 2008  
IRELAND | End Year [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Open Tax Year 2014  
UNITED KINGDOM | End Year [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Open Tax Year 2014  
CANADA | Start Year [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Open Tax Year 2011  
CANADA | End Year [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Open Tax Year 2014  
Start Year [Member] | Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Open Tax Year 2011  
End Year [Member] | Internal Revenue Service (IRS) [Member]    
Note 8 - Income Taxes (Details) [Line Items]    
Open Tax Year 2014