Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby store chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Michaels and Paper Source sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michaels | - | +10.8% |
| 2 | Paper Source | ▲1 | +4.3% |
| 3 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | ▼1 | -100.0% |
- Michaels
- Hobby Lobby
- Blick Art Materials
- Paper Source
- The Garment District
- Stitch Boutique
- Fabric Place Basement
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
110 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 49 of the 110 stores (45%); 61 of the 66 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across Massachusetts.
- Michaels (21)
- Hobby Lobby (5)
- Blick Art Materials (2)
- Paper Source (9)
- The Garment District (1)
- Stitch Boutique (1)
- Fabric Place Basement (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 21
- 2 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 12
- 3 Paper Source 9
- 4 Hobby Lobby 5
- 5 Blick Art Materials 2
- 6 Lansdowne Frame 1
- 7 Emma's Quilt Cupboard & Sewing Center 1
- 8 The Wizards Duel 1
- 9 Art Signals Studio 1
- 10 Lowell Gallery 1
- 11 Pine Tree Quilt Shop 1
- 12 Table Top Nexus 1
- 13 Tandy Leather 1
- 14 Seacoast Sewing and Quilting 1
- 15 Tibet Emporium 1
- 16 Andover Gallery 1
- 17 Another Yarn 1
- 18 Spinning Yarns 1
- 19 The Sorcerer's Inn 1
- 20 Frame It 1
- 21 Clay Dreams 1
- 22 Van Gogh's Gear 1
- 23 Alchemy and Art 1
- 24 Great Eastern Trading Co 1
- 25 The Yarn and Fiber Company 1
- 26 Hobby Quarters 1
- 27 Merri Stitches 1
- 28 ABC RC & Hobbies 1
- 29 Bedrock Comics 1
- 30 The Pottery Paddock 1
- 31 Reliable Fabrics 1
- 32 Artist & Craftsman Supply 1
- 33 Plaster Fun Time 1
- 34 Sewfisticated 1
- 35 The Happy Sunflower 1
- 36 The Garment District 1
- 37 Stitch Boutique 1
- 38 Fabric Place Basement 1
- 39 The Clayroom 1
- 40 Big Picture Framing 1
- 41 Zimman's 1
- 42 Hive & Forge 1
- 43 The Magic Parlor 1
- 44 MoreFun 1
- 45 Hobby Bunker 1
- 46 Fabric Corner 1
- 47 buckleguy.com 1
- 48 Art Supplies Wholesale 1
- 49 Tibet Arts & Healing 1
- 50 Gather Here 1
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