Metro by metro
The leading art craft hobby store chains in every Tennessee metro area
Tracked art craft hobby store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Hobby Lobby leads in all 5 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Tennessee as a whole, Hobby Lobby stands out in 2 metro areas, Michaels in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Hobby Lobby
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Knoxville, TN 1.1× · Memphis, TN-MS-AR (TN part) 1×
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Michaels
Relative #1 in Nashville, TN, 1.5× its share in Tennessee
Not enough tracked stores: Clarksville, TN-KY (TN part) · Cleveland, TN · Jackson, TN · Johnson City, TN · Morristown, TN
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Chattanooga, TN-GA (TN part) · Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA (TN part)
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Hobby Lobby
#1 in all 5 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Clarksville, TN-KY (TN part) · Cleveland, TN · Jackson, TN · Johnson City, TN · Morristown, TN
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked art craft hobby store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Tennessee compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Tennessee as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Tennessee and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Tennessee is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Tennessee. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
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. Hobby Lobby and Michaels sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobby Lobby | - | +10.3% |
| 2 | Michaels | - | +2.7% |
| 3 | Paper Source | ▲1 | -6.4% |
| 4 | Tandy Leather | ▲1 | -26.9% |
| 5 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | ▼2 | -99.9% |
- Hobby Lobby
- Michaels
- Jerry's Artarama
- Ben Franklin Crafts
- Paper Source
- The Pottery Place
- Just Roll With It Cards and Games
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
219 tracked store locations in Tennessee. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 77 of the 219 stores (35%); 138 of the 145 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, against 3% across the United States.
- Hobby Lobby (32)
- Michaels (25)
- Jerry's Artarama (2)
- Ben Franklin Crafts (1)
- Paper Source (3)
- The Pottery Place (1)
- Just Roll With It Cards and Games (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Hobby Lobby 32
- 2 Michaels 25
- 3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 14
- 4 Paper Source 3
- 5 Tandy Leather 3
- 6 Jerry's Artarama 2
- 7 The Sewing House 2
- 8 A Southern Accent Quilt Shop 1
- 9 Muletown Hobbies and Games 1
- 10 Hook & Needle 1
- 11 Gannon Art Center 1
- 12 Art at the Square 1
- 13 Smokey Mountain RC 1
- 14 Stony Clay Station 1
- 15 Stephanie Widmann 1
- 16 Air Kingz 1
- 17 Kudzu Cottage 1
- 18 Winsome Stroll Market 1
- 19 Sparky's Glassblowing 1
- 20 The Arcane Workshop 1
- 21 The Quilting Squares Quilt Shop 1
- 22 Brushstrokes n' More 1
- 23 Twisted Sisters Quilt Shop 1
- 24 The Quilted Square 1
- 25 Ben Franklin Crafts 1
- 26 Elkton Quilt Shop 1
- 27 Associated Fabrics 1
- 28 Fowler's Clay Works 1
- 29 Haus of Yarn 1
- 30 Lana's Quilts and Sew Much More 1
- 31 Beech Branch Crafts & Art Gallery 1
- 32 Beauty and the Beast Costumes 1
- 33 Seize the Clay 1
- 34 Granny B's Quilt Shop 1
- 35 Children's Corner Patterns 1
- 36 Buie Pottery 1
- 37 Unplugged Tabletop Games & More 1
- 38 Mid-South Hobbies 1
- 39 All About Holidays 1
- 40 Little Shop of Cards 1
- 41 The Fabric Company 1
- 42 East Tennessee Leather Company 1
- 43 Terry's Treasures 1
- 44 Katy's Fabrics 1
- 45 Party Planner 901 1
- 46 Zuke's Wood Works 1
- 47 The Quilt Patch 1
- 48 Rocky Flats Pottery and Soap 1
- 49 All Star Stitches 1
- 50 Foothills Pottery by Andy Phipps 1
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