Trends · data through September 2026

Art Craft Hobby Stores in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Iceflower tracks 122 stores from 83 art craft hobby store chains in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. 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
83
Tracked stores
122
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 - +10.7%
2 Paper Source ▲1 +4.6%
3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores ▼1 -100.0%
  • Michaels
  • Hobby Lobby
  • Ben Franklin Crafts
  • Northwest Sports Cards
  • Big Nate's Trading Cards
  • Blick Art Materials
  • Mugu Games
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

122 tracked store locations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 42 of the 122 stores (34%); 76 of the 83 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across Washington.

  • Michaels (15)
  • Hobby Lobby (10)
  • Ben Franklin Crafts (3)
  • Northwest Sports Cards (1)
  • Big Nate's Trading Cards (1)
  • Blick Art Materials (1)
  • Mugu Games (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Michaels 15
  • 2 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 11
  • 3 Hobby Lobby 10
  • 4 Ben Franklin Crafts 3
  • 5 Paper Source 3
  • 6 Artist & Craftsman Supply 2
  • 7 Tandy Leather 2
  • 8 The Game Matrix 1
  • 9 Skyway Model Shop 1
  • 10 Threadneedle Street Needlework Supplies 1
  • 11 The Slime Factory 1
  • 12 Electric Train Shop 1
  • 13 Dhaberdashery 1
  • 14 The Quilting Fairy 1
  • 15 NW Rockhounds 1
  • 16 Needles & Hooks 1
  • 17 Art Primo 1
  • 18 The Pottery Nook Art Studio 1
  • 19 Snohomish Bee Company 1
  • 20 Push/Pull 1
  • 21 Makers' Mercantile 1
  • 22 Running Stitch Fabrics 1
  • 23 Queen Anne Frame 1
  • 24 Great Yarns 1
  • 25 Quil Ceda Leather 1
  • 26 Mudhouse Pottery Painting 1
  • 27 Gossypium Quilt Shop 1
  • 28 Northwest Makes 1
  • 29 Urban Scrapbooker 1
  • 30 Katelyn's Korner 1
  • 31 B Town Yarn 1
  • 32 Quilting Mayhem 1
  • 33 Pieced Together Quilts 1
  • 34 Seattle Pottery Supply 1
  • 35 Over the Brick 1
  • 36 Miniatures & More 1
  • 37 Stilly River Yarns 1
  • 38 The Game Shelf 1
  • 39 MarninSaylor 1
  • 40 The Arium Shop 1
  • 41 Stitches 1
  • 42 The Yarn Outfitter LLC 1
  • 43 Metro Retro 1
  • 44 Creatively Yours Bellevue 1
  • 45 Premium Bead 1
  • 46 Northwest Art & Frame 1
  • 47 Emerald City Retro 1
  • 48 Mill Creek Sports 1
  • 49 Frame Central 1
  • 50 Bead World 1

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