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.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paper Source | ▲1 | +13.3% |
| 2 | Blick Art Materials | ▼1 | +8.0% |
| 3 | Michaels | - | +6.2% |
| 4 | Great Escape Adventures | - | -64.4% |
- Hobby Lobby
- Michaels
- FlipSide Gaming
- Finnigans Sportscards
- Paper Source
- Blick Art Materials
- Mood Fabrics
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
399 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 128 of the 399 stores (32%); 225 of the 238 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Hobby Lobby (30)
- Michaels (70)
- FlipSide Gaming (3)
- Finnigans Sportscards (1)
- Paper Source (17)
- Blick Art Materials (7)
- Mood Fabrics (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 70
- 2 Hobby Lobby 30
- 3 Paper Source 17
- 4 Blick Art Materials 7
- 5 Great Escape Adventures 4
- 6 FlipSide Gaming 3
- 7 Soho Art Materials 2
- 8 Aurora Sewing Center 2
- 9 Artist & Craftsman Supply 2
- 10 Color Me Mine 2
- 11 The Costumer 2
- 12 Utrecht Art Supplies 2
- 13 Jonathan Embroidery Plus 1
- 14 Craft Bits & Pieces 1
- 15 Fabrics Garden 1
- 16 Knitty City 1
- 17 Gray Lines Linen 1
- 18 Nxt Legaci 1
- 19 HackFab Hobbies 1
- 20 ROC Drift 1
- 21 Knitty Gritty Yarns 1
- 22 Milepost Hobbies 1
- 23 Yarn Cupboard 1
- 24 Lumpy Buttons 1
- 25 Principally Prints 1
- 26 The Crafternoon Shoppe 1
- 27 Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival 1
- 28 Fabrics Express 1
- 29 The Warm Ewe 1
- 30 Lift Bridge Yarns 1
- 31 The Studio for Art and Craft 1
- 32 Yamaguchie 1
- 33 City Sewing Machine Corp 1
- 34 Designs In Silk Custom Framing 1
- 35 West Village 1
- 36 Bad Cat Airsoft 1
- 37 Gloversville Sewing Center 1
- 38 Sew What 1
- 39 Just Bead It 1
- 40 Breakcity Cards & Memorabilia 1
- 41 Occhicone Fine Leather Goods 1
- 42 The Pottery Factory 1
- 43 Tiny Doll House 1
- 44 Ceramic Decor And More 1
- 45 Manny's Art Supplies 1
- 46 Pro R/C Hobby & Raceway 1
- 47 Shoeless Joe's 1
- 48 Fabric Wholesale Direct 1
- 49 Sew Crazy 1
- 50 Calico Gals 1
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