Trends · data through September 2026

Art Craft Hobby Stores in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

Iceflower tracks 294 stores from 175 art craft hobby store chains in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Michaels grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Paper Source and JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
175
Tracked stores
294
Consumer panel
130M+

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.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Michaels - +9.8%
2 Paper Source ▲1 -5.2%
3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores ▼1 -100.0%
  • Michaels
  • Hobby Lobby
  • Blick Art Materials
  • Color Me Mine
  • M & L Fabrics Discount Store
  • OC RC Outlet
  • Paper Source
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

294 tracked store locations in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 115 of the 294 stores (39%); 163 of the 175 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across California.

  • Michaels (45)
  • Hobby Lobby (16)
  • Blick Art Materials (4)
  • Color Me Mine (19)
  • M & L Fabrics Discount Store (1)
  • OC RC Outlet (1)
  • Paper Source (12)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Michaels 45
  • 2 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 23
  • 3 Color Me Mine 19
  • 4 Hobby Lobby 16
  • 5 Paper Source 12
  • 6 Blick Art Materials 4
  • 7 Project CCG 2
  • 8 Tandy Leather 2
  • 9 Graphaids 2
  • 10 Blue Rooster Art Supplies 2
  • 11 Remainders Creative Reuse 2
  • 12 LA Sports Cards 2
  • 13 Universal Art Gallery 1
  • 14 D & L Stained Glass 1
  • 15 A Place To Bead 1
  • 16 The Fabric Shop 1
  • 17 Saltex Fabrics 1
  • 18 Dahdoul Textiles Inc 1
  • 19 The King's Roost 1
  • 20 Hobbyholics 1
  • 21 Graphaids Art Supplies 1
  • 22 City Fabric 1
  • 23 SewCrazed Quilting 1
  • 24 Quilt Emporium 1
  • 25 American Tex 1
  • 26 Global Linen 1
  • 27 Cox Paint Center 1
  • 28 Tilted Gaming 1
  • 29 Sewing Arts Center 1
  • 30 RCStreetShop 1
  • 31 Aster Fabrics 1
  • 32 RailMaster Hobbies 1
  • 33 Downtown Framing Outlet 1
  • 34 Knight Ware Inc 1
  • 35 Happy Face Trends 1
  • 36 Stained Glass Supplies 1
  • 37 Collector's Outlet 1
  • 38 Newport Needlepoint 1
  • 39 Card Game Coliseum 1
  • 40 BUKU Yarns 1
  • 41 Creep It Real OC 1
  • 42 Big Z Fabric 1
  • 43 Pacific Blue Denims 1
  • 44 Perial co inc 1
  • 45 Catalina Crafters 1
  • 46 LA Wargames 1
  • 47 Smith Brothers Hobby Center 1
  • 48 GXGAMERS 1
  • 49 Junk for Joy 1
  • 50 Western Costume Co 1

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