Trends · data through September 2026

Art Craft Hobby Stores in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 283 stores from 160 art craft hobby store chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Paper Source grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Blick Art Materials and Color Me Mine.

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
160
Tracked stores
283
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. Paper Source and Blick Art Materials sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Paper Source ▲1 +5.1%
2 Blick Art Materials ▲1 +3.8%
3 Color Me Mine ▲1 -0.8%
4 Michaels - -2.9%
5 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores ▼3 -100.0%
  • Michaels
  • Hobby Lobby
  • Louis Vuitton Short Hills
  • Paper Source
  • Blick Art Materials
  • Mood Fabrics
  • Utrecht Art Supplies
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

283 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 116 of the 283 stores (41%); 149 of the 160 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, against 3% across New York.

  • Michaels (60)
  • Hobby Lobby (19)
  • Louis Vuitton Short Hills (1)
  • Paper Source (19)
  • Blick Art Materials (8)
  • Mood Fabrics (1)
  • Utrecht Art Supplies (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Michaels 60
  • 2 Hobby Lobby 19
  • 3 Paper Source 19
  • 4 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 10
  • 5 Blick Art Materials 8
  • 6 Color Me Mine 8
  • 7 Utrecht Art Supplies 2
  • 8 Artist & Craftsman Supply 2
  • 9 Butala Emporium 2
  • 10 Soho Art Materials 2
  • 11 Fabric Warehouse 2
  • 12 Stryker's Paint Store 1
  • 13 Supplies for Creative Living 1
  • 14 Paterson Tattoo Supply 1
  • 15 Fabric Mall 1
  • 16 Rip N Ship Gaming 1
  • 17 Fantasy Bay 1
  • 18 Urban Sewciety 1
  • 19 Stitch N Sew Fabric Centre 1
  • 20 Shadow Hobbies 1
  • 21 Mouse Creek Quilts 1
  • 22 Montague Art 1
  • 23 RC HOBBY 1
  • 24 Sunnyside Arts 1
  • 25 Fabric House 1
  • 26 Little Shop of Crafts 1
  • 27 Gotham City Hobbies 1
  • 28 Paper House 1
  • 29 Silk Road Fabrics Inc 1
  • 30 Blake One 1
  • 31 Botani Trimmings 1
  • 32 Bay Shore Hobbies and Toys 1
  • 33 Threads Too Needlepoint 1
  • 34 The Compleat Sculptor 1
  • 35 Liquid Games 1
  • 36 Steinlauf & Stoller, Inc. 1
  • 37 Nur Jahan Fabrics LLC 1
  • 38 Fabrics Garden 1
  • 39 Knitty City 1
  • 40 Gray Lines Linen 1
  • 41 Nxt Legaci 1
  • 42 Supply 1
  • 43 Fabrics Express 1
  • 44 Mother Knitter 1
  • 45 City Sewing Machine Corp 1
  • 46 Jonathan Embroidery Plus 1
  • 47 Chess Forum 1
  • 48 Cleo's Yarn Shop 1
  • 49 New York Fabrics 1
  • 50 Fabric Plus 1

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