Trends · data through July 2026

Art Craft Hobby Stores in California

Iceflower tracks 341 stores from 63 art craft hobby stores chains in California. Hobby Lobby grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Blick Art Materials and Michaels.

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
63
Tracked stores
341
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. Hobby Lobby and Blick Art Materials sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby - +6.3%
2 B Blick Art Materials logo Blick Art Materials ▲1 -1.8%
3 M Michaels logo Michaels - -3.0%
4 S Spirit Halloween logo Spirit Halloween ▲1 -12.8%
5 W Warhammer logo Warhammer - -16.7%
6 H HobbyTown ▼1 -21.2%
7 J JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores logo JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores ▼1 -28.7%
  • Hobby Lobby
  • Michaels
  • Spirit Halloween
  • JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores
  • Edwards Arts & Crafts / Auto Hobby
  • Blick Art Materials
  • HobbyTown
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

341 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Hobby Lobby (65)
  • Michaels (139)
  • Spirit Halloween (30)
  • JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores (36)
  • Edwards Arts & Crafts / Auto Hobby (1)
  • Blick Art Materials (4)
  • HobbyTown (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 M Michaels logo Michaels 139
  • 2 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby 65
  • 3 J JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores logo JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 36
  • 4 S Spirit Halloween logo Spirit Halloween 30
  • 5 B Blick Art Materials logo Blick Art Materials 4
  • 6 H HobbyTown 4
  • 7 W Warhammer logo Warhammer 4
  • 8 U Utrecht Art Supplies logo Utrecht Art Supplies 2
  • 9 H Halloween Express 2
  • 10 H Halloween City logo Halloween City 2
  • 11 C Card Art 1
  • 12 C Cotton and Chocolate Quilt Co 1
  • 13 C Cotton Gin Fabric 1
  • 14 R Rainman's Hobby and Raceway 1
  • 15 T The Card Goblin TCG 1
  • 16 C Coyote Hobbies and Raceway 1
  • 17 J Joyful Toad TCG 1
  • 18 A Anime Station 1
  • 19 P Phantom Halloween Store 1
  • 20 C Cherry Berry Quilts 1
  • 21 M Martine 1
  • 22 C Collector Legion 1
  • 23 E Edwards Arts & Crafts / Auto Hobby 1
  • 24 C Collectors Lounge 1
  • 25 B Blick Art Supplies 1
  • 26 H Haiku Pop Gaming and Collectibles 1
  • 27 M Maximum Sports 1
  • 28 C Crafty Cut Vinyl 1
  • 29 G Gamescape San Francisco 1
  • 30 E Embroidme Cypress 1
  • 31 G Games of Livermore 1
  • 32 W Washington Craft 1
  • 33 E Evangeline's Costume Mansion 1
  • 34 G Games of Fremont 1
  • 35 R Remainders Creative Reuse logo Remainders Creative Reuse 1
  • 36 G Graphaids 1
  • 37 B Bellagio 26 1
  • 38 T Top Deck Keep 1
  • 39 S San Ysidro Games 1
  • 40 P Pair A Dice Games 1
  • 41 O OC RC Outlet 1
  • 42 A Airsoft Extreme logo Airsoft Extreme 1
  • 43 A All Star Cards 1
  • 44 L LA Sports Cards 1
  • 45 M M & L Fabrics Discount Store 1
  • 46 B Ben Franklin Crafts 1
  • 47 A Art Supply Warehouse 1
  • 48 I International Silk 1
  • 49 T Tandy Leather logo Tandy Leather 1
  • 50 N Neko Stop logo Neko Stop 1

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