Trends · data through July 2026

Art Craft Hobby Stores in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 36 stores from 11 art craft hobby stores chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Michaels grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hobby Lobby 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
11
Tracked stores
36
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby stores 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 Hobby Lobby sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Michaels logo Michaels - +1.6%
2 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby - +1.5%
3 J JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores logo JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores - -25.4%
  • Michaels
  • Hobby Lobby
  • Blick Art Materials
  • The Garment District
  • JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores
  • The Clayroom
  • Fabric Place Basement
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

36 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Michaels (19)
  • Hobby Lobby (5)
  • Blick Art Materials (2)
  • The Garment District (1)
  • JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores (3)
  • The Clayroom (1)
  • Fabric Place Basement (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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