Island Guides · checked 2026-08-13

Where to buy craft and art supplies on Oʻahu

34 shops, checked one at a time against their own websites and listings — and, just as usefully, the 6 that have closed and the 8 things you simply cannot buy on this island at any price.

Three things to know before you go anywhere

One chain, not three

There is no Michaels and no Hobby Lobby anywhere in Hawaiʻi — both chains’ own store directories skip the state. JOANN closed every Hawaii store in 2025. Ben Franklin Crafts is what is left, and it is locally owned.

The hours are strange

Not sloppily recorded — genuinely strange. One bead shop publishes nine hours a week. The quilt shop shuts Tuesday and Thursday and splits Saturday in two. One fabric shop is evenings-only on weekdays. Read the hours here properly before you drive.

Half of it will not post here

Anything aerosol, flammable or corrosive cannot be shipped to Hawaiʻi at all. That is most of what an art shop sells in a can. Which shop stocks it locally stops being a convenience and starts being the whole question.

Jump to what you make

General craft stores2Fine art supplies3Fabric, sewing and quilting9Yarn, needlepoint and embroidery2Clay, glazes and kilns2Beads, findings and jewellery metal6Hawaiian craft materials4Wood and tools1Glass1Paper, printmaking and stationery1Resin, casting and fibreglass1Salvage, reuse and secondhand2What will not ship here

General craft stores

There is one general craft chain on this island and it is Ben Franklin. No Michaels, no Hobby Lobby, and since 2025 no JOANN — which is why the rest of this page exists.

🧵 HouseMart Ben Franklin Crafts

Four branches — see below

  • Māpunapuna — 2810 Paʻa Street, Honolulu, HI 96819 · (808) 833-3800
  • Market City — 2919 Kapiolani Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96826 · (808) 735-4211
  • Enchanted Lake — 1020 Keolu Drive, Kailua, HI 96734 · (808) 261-4621
  • Pearl City — 850 Kamehameha Highway, Pearl City, HI 96782 · (808) 455-1909

Mon–Sat 9am–8pm, Sun 9am–5pm (all four branches)

Stocks. The broad middle of craft: yarn, beads, scrapbook and card paper, fabric, art materials, floral, balloons. In-store frame shop, membership programme and regular workshops at each branch.

With JOANN gone this is the only general craft chain left on the island, which makes it the default answer to almost every "where do I get…" question — and also means it is busy, and that a niche item is more likely to be out of stock than stocked. Locally owned by HouseMart, who also run ACE Hardware and Daiso here.

Before you drive over. TripAdvisor carries a "Ben Franklin Crafts Kaimuki" listing. There is no Kaimukī branch on the company’s own locations page — it is almost certainly Market City double-listed. Do not drive to Kaimukī looking for one.

From our own shopping. The Māpunapuna branch is the one we use — it is the largest and has the deepest floral and paper stock of the four.

(808) 833-3800 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🎏 Daiso

1024 Piikoi St · 1102 Fort Street Mall · 850 Kamehameha Hwy, Pearl City

Publishes no hours

Stocks. Cheap consumables that add up fast: felt sheets, washi tape, silicone moulds, small resin kits, wicks, glue, basic tools, acrylic yarn, storage.

Not a craft shop, but the cheapest way to buy the disposable half of a project. The Pearl City store shares a building with Ben Franklin, which makes that one stop worth the drive.

Before you drive over. We verified three Oʻahu branches and did not attempt a full list — there may be more.

No published phone · No website · checked 2026-08-13

Fine art supplies

For paint, canvas, brushes, paper and pens, essentially one shop matters. It has been trading on Beretania Street since 1973.

🎨 Hawaiian Graphics

1923 S Beretania St, Honolulu, HI 96826

Mon–Fri 9:30am–6pm, Sat 9:30am–4pm, Sun closed

Stocks. Acrylics, oils, watercolours, spray paint, canvas and easels; brushes across the range; pastels, pencils, inks, pens, markers; sketchbooks, watercolour and specialty papers; drafting kit; screen and block printing; airbrush, cutting tools, portfolios, framing and adhesives. Some clay and textile supplies, and bookbinding.

Trading since 1973 and the only shop on Oʻahu that behaves like a real art supplier. If you make two-dimensional work, this is the trip. If you work in clay or glass, it will not cover you — one 2026 reviewer put it as bluntly as we would. Regulars report that stock-outs on specific niche items are the recurring frustration, so ring before you drive over for one thing.

Parking. Own lot, free and paid spaces. Wheelchair accessible.

From our own shopping. This is where we buy spray fixative and solvent, because those cannot legally be posted to Hawaii at all — see below.

(808) 973-7171 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🖨️ One Shot Supplies

94-105 Malakeke Place, Waipahu, HI 96797

Mon–Fri 8am–4:30pm, Sat 9am–1pm, Sun closed

Stocks. Screen printing inks, vinyl film, heat presses, cutting tools, transfer materials, laminating film, tapes and adhesives, engraving supplies.

A warehouse in the Waipahu industrial estate rather than a shop, and walk-ins are welcome during business hours. If you are printing shirts, cutting decals or making signage this is the address, and almost nobody outside the trade knows it is there.

(808) 841-7683 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🖋️ MŌNO

2013 S King St, Honolulu, HI 96826

Mon–Sat 11am–4pm, Sun closed

Stocks. Japanese stationery — Kaweco, Pilot and Midori pens, fountain pens, notebooks, journals, papers. Also leather goods and homeware.

Curated design goods, not a bulk supplier. Right for pens, ink and paper; wrong for canvas and tube paint. Short afternoon hours.

(808) 955-1595 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

Fabric, sewing and quilting

The island’s strongest category by a distance, and the one that absorbed the shock when JOANN went. Between them these shops cover Hawaiian print, barkcloth, quilting cotton, palaka and the notions nobody else stocks.

🌺 Fabric Mart

Also trades as Hawaii Fabric Mart

Three branches — see below

  • ʻAiea (main) — 98-023 Hekaha St, Harbor Center Bldg 1, Unit 1, ʻAiea, HI 96701 · (808) 488-8882
  • Kalākaua — 1631 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96826 · (808) 947-4466
  • Kāneʻohe — 45-681 Kamehameha Hwy A, Kāneʻohe, HI 96744 · (808) 234-6604

ʻAiea and Kāneʻohe Mon–Sat 9am–6pm, Sun 9am–5pm · Kalākaua daily 9am–6pm

Stocks. Hawaiian print cotton, poly-cotton, rayon, barkcloth, palaka, solids; apparel fabrics including satin, velvet, organza and chiffon; notions; lei and quilted goods.

The volume option, and the one most people mean when they say "the fabric store". Three branches spread across town, ʻAiea and Kāneʻohe, which is unusual reach for an independent here.

(808) 488-8882 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

✂️ Kaimuki Dry Goods

1144 10th Ave, Suite 100, Honolulu, HI 96816

Mon–Sat 9am–5pm, Sun closed

Stocks. Kona cotton solids, Asian fabrics, notions, buttons and ribbon; patterns including New Look, the Victoria Jones Collection and Apapane Designs; sewing machines.

Also does sewing machine repair, specialty machine servicing, scissors sharpening and classes. The sharpening is the thing to remember — there are not many places left that will do it.

(808) 734-2141 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🪡 June Fabrics

938 Austin Ln, Honolulu, HI 96817

Mon–Sat 9am–5pm, Sun closed (per their Google listing; their own site publishes none)

Stocks. Wall-to-wall Hawaiian and tropical print — all-over, single and double border, tribal; palaka; ombré; 65/35 poly-cotton and 100% cotton, mostly 45in wide. Buttons and lace.

They design and print their own fabric, which means that if a house design runs low they can reprint it — not something any other shop here can offer. Prices are notably low, roughly $4.50 to $9.50 a yard.

Parking. Only a handful of spaces. Go early or plan to circle.

(808) 845-5400 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🌴 Hawaiian Fabrics

3207 Martha St, Honolulu, HI 96815

Mon–Fri 9:30am–5pm, Sat 10:30am–3:30pm, Sun closed

Stocks. 100% cotton, poly-cotton, barkcloth (tapa print), rayon, upholstery, batik and solids in Hawaiian and tropical motifs. Around $6.99–$7.99 a yard.

One of the few dependable sources of barkcloth and tapa print on the island, which is why it is worth knowing about even though it is a small shop on a side street.

Parking. Free lot plus free street parking — rare for this part of town.

(808) 381-3909 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🐈 The Calico Cat

1223 Koko Head Ave, Suite 1, Honolulu, HI 96816

Mon, Wed, Fri 1:30pm–4:30pm · Sat 10am–12pm and 2pm–4:30pm · Tue, Thu and Sun closed

Stocks. Over 1,500 bolts of quilting cotton — Michael Miller, Westminster, Robert Kaufman, Tula Pink — plus Hawaiian prints, Japanese and Asian fabrics, batiks, DMC threads, Daruma sashiko thread, notions, books and patterns.

The island’s dedicated quilt shop, open since 1982 and about 700 square feet. Effectively a one-woman operation, and every cut is logged by hand, so a queue of four people can genuinely take twenty-five minutes. Budget the time rather than resenting it. Mail order and a frequent-shopper scheme.

Parking. Metered street only, on a one-way stretch of Koko Head Ave or round on Waiʻalae. Bring coins.

From our own shopping. Read those hours twice. Closed Tuesday and Thursday, and Saturday is two separate blocks with a two-hour gap in the middle.

(808) 732-3998 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🌙 Oh Sew Blessed

Kukui Plaza Mall, 50 Nuuanu Ave, Honolulu, HI 96813

Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 5:30pm–8:30pm · Sat 9am–5pm · Sun 10am–3:30pm · Tue closed

Stocks. Quilting and fashion fabric, Hawaiian and otherwise, patterns and tools. Sewing classes.

Evenings only on weekdays, which makes it the one fabric shop on Oʻahu you can reach after a nine-to-five. That is genuinely useful and almost nobody mentions it. No website — the phone is the way in.

(808) 523-3330 · No website · checked 2026-08-13

🧷 Hawaii Sewing Supplies

1001 Dillingham Blvd, Honolulu, HI 96817

Mon–Fri 9am–3pm, Sat and Sun closed

Stocks. Thread in quantity — heavy-duty nylon and cotton — plus bag hardware: D-rings, buckles, sliders, and notions in bulk.

The fill-the-gap shop. People send each other here for the specific thing Ben Franklin and Fabric Mart do not carry, particularly bag hardware and heavy thread. Short weekday hours and no website; ring before you go.

(808) 841-8223 · No website · checked 2026-08-13

⚙️ Hawaii Creative Sewing

1144 10th Avenue, Suite 100, Honolulu, HI 96816

Tue–Sat 9am–5pm, Sun and Mon closed

Stocks. Baby Lock, Brother and Janome machines, with factory-trained service and repair.

Same building as Kaimuki Dry Goods, which makes 10th Avenue the one address on the island where you can buy a machine, get it serviced, buy fabric for it and have your scissors sharpened in a single stop. With Bernina of Hawaii gone, this and Kaimuki Dry Goods are the verified machine dealers here.

(808) 732-2739 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🪻 DeStash Hawaii

736 South St #103, Honolulu, HI 96813

Mon–Fri 11am–5pm, Sat 11am–4pm, Sun closed

Stocks. Fabric, precuts, lace and trim, notions, Japanese fabric and yarn — plus vintage muʻumuʻu, aloha shirts, jewellery, bags and lei.

Native Hawaiian owned and run by Auntie Lei, who specialises in muʻumuʻu history and curation. This is the closest thing Oʻahu has to a textile destash, and the stock turns over, so it rewards dropping in rather than planning. Runs workshops.

Parking. Free lot plus paid street.

(808) 200-7874 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

Yarn, needlepoint and embroidery

The weakest category, and it is worth being blunt about why: Oʻahu has had no dedicated yarn shop since Yarnstory and Isle Knit closed. What is left is craft-store acrylic, a wholesale lei-yarn warehouse, and one very good needlepoint shop.

🪢 Needlepoint, etc.

1134 S King St, Honolulu, HI 96814

Tue–Fri 12pm–4pm, Sat 11am–3pm, Sun and Mon closed

Stocks. Hand-painted needlepoint canvases — tropical, Hawaiian, Hawaiian quilt pattern, Asian and Christmas designs — a very large thread and fibre range, a big DMC selection for embroiderers, tools and accessories.

Gussie, who runs it, is a master needlepointer and will spend anywhere from forty-five minutes to two hours with you if you need it. Twenty-four reviews and not one below five stars, which we have not seen anywhere else in this file. Short afternoon hours.

Parking. Easy parking round the back. On the #2 bus route from Waikīkī.

(808) 591-0377 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🎀 Max Imports

525 Kokea St #C2, Honolulu, HI 96817

Mon–Fri 9am–4pm, Sat and Sun closed

Stocks. Eyelash yarn in short and long pile, sparkle yarn, ribbon — the raw material for yarn lei — at wholesale prices.

A warehouse with no air conditioning, selling wholesale, and it will sell to anyone buying in quantity. Roughly $25 for a pack of ten skeins of eyelash yarn, the same price short or long; sparkle costs more. If you are making yarn lei for a graduation this is the address, and hardly anyone outside that world knows it.

Parking. Free lot plus metered street.

From our own shopping. Their site is served over plain HTTP, so some browsers will warn you before it loads. It is the real site.

(808) 847-1168 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

Clay, glazes and kilns

One supplier serves the island’s potters, and the fact that they are a Skutt distributor who repairs kilns on-island is worth more than it sounds — see the shipping section.

🏺 Hawaii Ceramic Supply & Studio

Also trades as Nendo Studio Hawaii

1922 Colburn St, Honolulu, HI 96819

Tue–Wed 10am–4pm, Thu–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat 10am–2pm, Sun and Mon closed

Stocks. Clay including low-fire bodies, Laguna Rainforest glazes, tools — and as a listed Skutt distributor, kilns, pottery wheels and glass kilns. They also service and repair kilns on-island.

The answer to "who supplies the island’s potters", and the single most important address on this page for anyone in clay. The kiln service is the part people underestimate: a kiln bought from the mainland arrives with no local technician attached to it, and clay is heavy and cheap, which is the worst possible ratio to pay ocean freight on.

Before you drive over. The entrance is signed 1920 Colburn St, Suite A — their own site uses that address while their Google listing and phone-bearing pages use 1922. Same place; do not turn around if the number on the door does not match.

From our own shopping. We buy clay here. Buying it locally is not convenience, it is the difference between a viable practice and a freight bill.

(808) 295-1477 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🧱 Hawaii Potters Guild

2480 Bingham St, Honolulu, HI 96826

Students 9am–9pm · members any time

Stocks. Clay bodies at cost — Amador, Black Mountain, B-Mix, Coleman Porcelain, Dave’s Porcelain, Death Valley, Paper Clay, Recycled, Russian River, Soldate 60. Roughly $25 for recycled up to $68 for Coleman Porcelain. Tool kits around $25, bats $11–$68.

Cheaper than anywhere else, with a hard condition attached — in their own words, sales are limited to current Guild students and members, and orders from anyone else are cancelled and refunded. Clay and supplies are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Worth joining for if you throw regularly.

(808) 941-8108 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

Beads, findings and jewellery metal

Unusually well served, and unusually badly signposted. Two of these are genuinely hard to find and one of them has you ring a doorbell.

💍 Bead It!

1152 Koko Head Ave, Honolulu, HI 96816

Tue–Sat 11am–4pm, Sun 12pm–4pm, Mon closed

Stocks. Thousands of beads, jewellery-making supplies, books and tools. Jewellery repair — restringing and knotting. Classes with published prices: Wire Basics $95, Knotting Basics $75, Bangles of Gold $85, Sterling Silver Bezeled Ring $135.

Twenty-plus years in Kaimukī and the sterling silver class means they handle real metalwork, not just stringing. One Oʻahu location only, whatever a garbled sentence on their own site implies.

Parking. Paid lot next door plus street parking out front.

(808) 734-1182 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

✨ Creations By You

Also trades as CBY Sparkle

1801 Liliha St, Honolulu, HI 96817

Mon–Fri 10:30am–5pm, Sun 11am–4pm, Sat closed

Stocks. Beads, charms including vintage, natural beads, rhinestones including European, and trims, ribbon and lace. They describe themselves as a bead store and trim shop, and claim the largest variety of beads, rhinestones and charms in Hawaiʻi.

Closed on Saturday and open on Sunday, which catches people out constantly. The trim and rhinestone side is the reason to come — nowhere else here combines the two.

Parking. Free lot. Curbside pickup, wheelchair accessible.

(808) 536-5255 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🔗 Schwartz Inc

46-003 Alaloa St, Kāneʻohe, HI 96744

Mon–Sat 9am–4:30pm, Sun closed

Stocks. Jewellery findings, tools and displays, with a large gold-filled findings selection. Co-located with Aloha Pearls and their loose freshwater and saltwater pearls.

The trade supplier, long-running and not aimed at hobbyists, but open to them. They moved out of Honolulu to Kāneʻohe, so any older address you find in a directory is wrong.

(808) 538-1410 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🦪 Aloha Pearls & Schwartz — Mānoa

2830 Kaonawai Pl, Suite C4, Honolulu, HI 96822

Mon–Sat 8am–4:30pm, Sun closed

Stocks. Tahitian, Edison, Keshi, South Sea, natural and freshwater pearls; gemstone and diamond strands; drilling and tools; displays and boxes. General jewellery-making supplies, and soldering classes.

The town-side branch, and the one that teaches — a customer took a soldering bangle class here in early 2026. There is a trade discount if you have a business, though getting proof accepted has been described as fiddly.

(808) 367-0175 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🌸 Kailua Beads

315 Uluniu St, Ste 101, Kailua, HI 96734

Daily 9am–4pm

Stocks. Beaded "forever lei" made in-store, plus take-home kits.

An experience shop rather than a supplier — you go to make a lei, or buy a kit to make one at home. Listed here because people search for it as a bead shop and then find it is not one. Hosts birthday parties.

Parking. Paid street parking.

No published phone · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

Hawaiian craft materials

The category where Oʻahu beats anywhere else on earth. Feathers, lauhala, raffia, shells, pua and lei materials, sold by people who have been doing it for generations.

🪶 Nā Lima Mili Hulu Noʻeau

904 Kohou St, Suite 204, Honolulu, HI 96817

Tue–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun and Mon closed (their own site publishes no hours)

Stocks. Feather art supplies to buy, finished hulu work — lei, hat bands, kāhili — and classes and workshops by appointment. They also run Pūlama Nā Hulu Makamae, a two-year programme for developing hulu artisans.

The shop of the late Aunty Mary Louise Kekuewa and Paulette Kahalepuna, the family credited with keeping Hawaiian featherwork alive. You can buy feathers here and make your own. Approach it as what it is — a place of practice with a shop attached, not a craft store.

(808) 499-7048 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🌿 Aloha Hula Supply

4369 Lawehana St, #A2, Honolulu, HI 96818

Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 10am–4pm · Wed 8:30am–4:30pm · Sat 9am–12pm · Sun closed

Stocks. Lauhala rolls and woven mat, raffia bundles from around $5, feathers (rooster, costume, Tahitian), shells, mother-of-pearl discs and flowers, kukui nut lei, artificial flowers and greenery, haku lei materials for hair, wrist and ankle, hula implements, paʻu skirts and instruments. Hawaiian, Tahitian, Māori and Samoan.

Family owned and the deepest single source of lei and hula materials on the island. Note the Wednesday anomaly — it opens earlier and closes later than every other day, and Saturday is a three-hour morning only.

Before you drive over. Kukui nut, tī leaf and coconut shell as loose raw material were not visible on their published pages — kukui appears as finished lei. Worth asking in store.

(808) 847-7600 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🌺 Crafts Way

Also trades as The Real Crafts Way

98-023 Hekaha St, Suite 6, ʻAiea, HI 96701

Mon–Sat 9am–5:30pm, Sun closed

Stocks. Handmade foam plumeria, tiare, orchid, hibiscus, gardenia and lily; silk, clay, latex, nylon, paper and plastic flowers; loose silk leaves; kukui nut lei and bracelets; combs, sticks, headbands, buns and clips; custom hairpieces and arrangements.

Trading since 2004, retail and wholesale, and widely called the best place for pua on Oʻahu. Same Harbor Center complex as Fabric Mart’s ʻAiea branch, so the two together make one trip worth it.

Parking. Accessible parking and entrance.

(808) 485-2270 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🥁 Aloha Fabrics Hula & Crafts

650 Iwilei Rd #185, Honolulu, HI 96817 (Dole Cannery)

Mon–Sat 9am–4pm, Sun closed · also at the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet, stall East K 19–21, Sat and Sun

Stocks. Palaka, cotton and poly-cotton; paʻu skirts, pareo and lavalava; hula implements and implement covers; lei, necklaces, flower hair clips and headbands; general craft materials.

One of the few shops that spans fabric and hula supply, and the swap meet stall at the weekend is a second bite if you miss the weekday hours.

Parking. Their own advice: park in the Costco lot next door, on the Home Depot side.

(808) 847-2998 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

Wood and tools

One craft-scale wood shop with real tools and intermittent koa, and one salvage yard where the wood has already had a life.

🪵 Woodcraft of Honolulu

1311 Kalani St #101, Honolulu, HI 96817

Mon–Fri 8am–6pm, Sat 9am–4pm, Sun 10am–4pm

Stocks. Premium hand and power tools — Festool, JET, Powermatic, Rikon, Laguna, WoodRiver, Pfeil carving tools — and hardwood lumber. Koa boards and pen blanks turn up, along with other local and exotic hardwood for small work.

The only craft-scale wood shop on the island, and open seven days, which almost nothing else here is. The koa is the catch: it is stocked intermittently rather than reliably, and one customer’s account of phoning ahead, being told yes, cycling in from Waikīkī and finding the blanks gone is the version to plan around.

Parking. Curbside pickup, accessible parking and entrance.

Before you drive over. If you want koa, ring and ask them to physically hold it. "We have some" is not the same as "it will be there".

(808) 841-9876 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

Glass

Fusing glass has exactly one source. Stained glass has none — and the two are not interchangeable, whatever a search result tells you.

🔥 Glass Fusion Collective

No public street address — Oʻahu, by class visit or online order

Card orders processed Tuesday evenings, pickup usually the next day during classes

Stocks. Kiln paper, frit, Thompson’s enamel powders, scrap glass, sheet glass from Oceanside, Youghiogheny and Wissmach, tools, stringers, noodles, dichroic pieces, firesticks, twisted cane and dots. An offsite supplier, Marie Kastensmith, carries mostly 96 COE with some 90, millefiori, moulds and cutting tools.

The only verified retail source of fusible glass on Oʻahu. In person they take cash or cheque only; card orders go through the online store and are processed on Tuesday evenings. They publish no street address or phone — the website is the way in.

Before you drive over. Their own warning, worth repeating: buy glass that will fuse. Stained glass, art glass and window glass are not compatible and are not allowed in their kilns.

No published phone · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

Paper, printmaking and stationery

Mostly covered by the art and general shops, with one small Kaimukī stationery place and a Waipahu warehouse for anyone printing on fabric.

📎 death by scrapbooking

3434 Waialae Ave, Unit 2, Honolulu, HI 96816

Daily 11am–6pm

Stocks. Stickers, craft and scrap paper, stationery, seasonal fukubukuro.

Small, recent and open every day. There is a bring-one-take-one washi tape box at the counter, which tells you what kind of shop it is. No website and no published phone — turning up is the only way.

Parking. Free lot plus paid street.

No published phone · No website · checked 2026-08-13

Resin, casting and fibreglass

Resin is hazmat, which means it effectively cannot be posted here. That single fact makes a fibreglass supplier one of the most important addresses on this page.

🧪 Fiberglass Hawaii

1377 Colburn St, Honolulu, HI 96817 · also 914 Palm Pl, Wahiawā, HI 96786

Mon–Fri 8am–4pm, Sat and Sun closed

Stocks. Epoxy resin and hardeners in fast and slow, polyester resin, fibreglass cloth, and surfboard ding-repair supplies.

Where Oʻahu’s resin artists and board shapers actually buy, and the reason is in the shipping section below: resin and hardener are hazmat and effectively cannot be posted to Hawaii. Ask the staff about fast versus slow hardener for your batch size — epoxy that kicks too fast will smoke and melt foam, and that is a technique problem, not a product fault.

Before you drive over. Their website is blocked to automated checks, so we have not loaded it. The phone number is verified.

(808) 847-3951 · No website · checked 2026-08-13

Salvage, reuse and secondhand

No creative-reuse centre in the mainland sense, but three places where materials get a second life — building salvage, textile destash, and home-improvement.

♻️ Re-use Hawaiʻi

4561 Salt Lake Blvd, Suite 102, Honolulu, HI 96818

Open daily — shopping 9am–5pm, donations 9am–4:30pm

Stocks. Reclaimed building materials: a staffed lumberyard, plus wood, stone and glass, cabinet doors, beams, lamps, furniture, appliances and artwork. Some of it is dirty or damaged; some of it is extraordinary.

A non-profit deconstruction operation and the only thing of its kind here. The Honolulu Tool Library shares the site, with a laser cutter for wood, leather and glass engraving. People have pulled beams out of here that came from Ward Warehouse.

Parking. Free. Wheelchair accessible including the restroom.

(808) 537-2228 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

🔨 Habitat for Humanity Leeward Oʻahu ReStore

91-291 Kalaeloa Blvd, Kapolei, HI 96707

Tue–Sat 9am–4pm, Sun and Mon closed

Stocks. Furniture, flooring, cabinets, fixtures and home-improvement salvage.

Relocated from Kalihi and is smaller and more tightly packed than the old site, so it rewards patience. Deal days on Tuesday and Thursday. Along with Honsador, it is most of what West Oʻahu has.

(808) 682-8411 · Their site · checked 2026-08-13

What will not ship to Hawaiʻi, and where to buy it instead

This is the part no listicle covers, and it is the actual problem. Blick’s own shipping policy puts it plainly: hazardous items cannot be shipped outside the continental United States and Canada. Hawaiʻi is outside the continental United States. USPS separately restricts aerosols, flammable liquids — which includes paint and many glues — and alcohol-containing products to surface transport only, and surface transport does not reach an island.

So the following are not a matter of paying more. They are a matter of buying them here or not having them.

Blocked materialBuy it here instead
Spray fixative, spray varnish, spray adhesive, spray paintHawaiian Graphics
Solvents — turpentine, mineral spirits, thinners, acetoneHawaiian Graphics
Alcohol inks and marker refillsHawaiian Graphics, or ask them to order it in
Epoxy and polyester resin, hardeners, catalystsFiberglass Hawaii
Lye for soap makingNowhere verified on-island — this one is genuinely stuck
Some oil paints and mediums classed as flammableHawaiian Graphics
Raw glaze chemicals and kiln chemicalsHawaii Ceramic Supply
Screen printing inks and transfer film in quantityOne Shot Supplies, Waipahu
Fusible glass, frit and enamelsGlass Fusion Collective

The weight problem

Even where something can legally ship, freight quotes apply to every Hawaiʻi order regardless of size, and expedited services do not serve the state at all. Stretched canvas over 36 inches, easels, furniture and clay orders over 50lb carry surcharges on top. Clay is heavy and cheap, which is the worst possible ratio — buying it on-island is an economic necessity, not a convenience.

Kilns

A kiln cannot practically be parcel-shipped. It goes freight to port, ocean container, then drayage, and someone has to receive several hundred pounds at the other end — with no local technician attached to the warranty. That is why Hawaii Ceramic Supply being a Skutt distributor who repairs kilns here is the most valuable single fact on this page for anyone in clay.

Two smaller traps worth knowing: many retailers silently exclude Hawaiʻi on hazmat lines and you only discover it at checkout or, worse, when the order is cancelled days later; and “free shipping over $X” almost never applies here.

What you cannot buy on this island at all

We looked for each of these specifically rather than assuming. Where we found nothing, that is a finding, not a gap in the research — and it is worth knowing before you plan a project around it.

A dedicated yarn shop

Oʻahu has had no local yarn shop since Yarnstory and Isle Knit closed. Wool, alpaca, indie-dyed, sock and weaving yarn, spinning fibre, looms and wheels are all mail-order.

What people do instead. Craft-store acrylic at Ben Franklin, yarn among the fabric at DeStash Hawaii, eyelash and sparkle yarn by the pack at Max Imports, and needlepoint and embroidery fibre at Needlepoint, etc.

Stained glass supplies

No retail source on the island for sheet glass, lead came, copper foil, flux or soldering supplies. The businesses that surface in searches are makers and commission studios, not suppliers.

What people do instead. Mail order. Note that Glass Fusion Collective covers fusing glass only and explicitly will not fire stained or window glass — the two are not interchangeable.

Leathercraft supplies

No verified source for hides, edge tools, stamps, punches or hardware. There is no Tandy Leather in Hawaii.

What people do instead. Leather is not hazmat, so it posts fine — the cost is freight and time, not restriction. Hawaii Sewing Supplies covers some of the hardware and heavy thread side. For learning rather than buying, Open Sea Leather runs bag-making workshops on Nuuanu Avenue.

Lampworking

No source found for rods, torches, mandrels or lampworking kilns.

What people do instead. Mail order, with the usual restrictions on anything pressurised or flammable.

Soap and candle making at any scale

No dedicated supplier. Lye is corrosive and classed as hazmat, so it is caught in both traps at once — arguably the hardest craft to start here.

What people do instead. Ben Franklin and Daiso cover melt-and-pour bases, wax, wicks and moulds for small batches. Beyond that you are looking at freight, and lye may not be shippable at all.

Kapa materials

Wauke bast, iʻe kuku beaters and dyes are not sold retail on Oʻahu. This knowledge and these materials pass through practitioners and cultural organisations, not shops.

What people do instead. The route in is a class or a practitioner, not a purchase.

Michaels and Hobby Lobby

Neither chain has a store anywhere in Hawaii. Hobby Lobby’s own directory lists 48 states and Hawaiʻi is not one of them; Michaels’ own state list jumps from Georgia to Iowa.

What people do instead. Ben Franklin Crafts is the equivalent, and it is locally owned.

Anything at all in West Oʻahu

No craft store, no art supply shop and no fabric shop verified west of Pearl City and ʻAiea. Pearl City is the westernmost Ben Franklin.

What people do instead. Kapolei has the Habitat ReStore and Honsador. Everything else is a drive into town.

Shops that have closed

Craft retail on Oʻahu has thinned out badly since 2024, and other guides still list several of these as open. Where we can state a closure flatly we do. Where the evidence is a review-site flag and a dead listing, we say “appears closed” and show you what we found, because calling a trading business closed is not a small mistake.

JOANN Fabric and Craft

Closed

All Hawaii stores

Closed in 2025, in the chain’s nationwide wind-down. The final stores shut in May 2025 after a second bankruptcy in eleven months.

Evidence. Covered through 2025 by Hawaii News Now and Hawaiʻi Public Radio, and no JOANN listing survives anywhere on Oʻahu. We are not naming the individual branches, because no source we could find breaks out the Hawaii store list and a wrong address would be worse than none.

Yarnstory

Appears closed

1411 S King St, Honolulu

Appears closed. It was a Brown Sheep stockist and is still referred to by local knitters.

Evidence. Yelp marks it closed and it no longer has a live Google listing at that address. A Ravelry entry still shows an address, phone and full opening hours — that entry is stale and should not be used.

Isle Knit

Appears closed

1188 Bishop St, Honolulu

Appears closed.

Evidence. Yelp marks it closed. No live Google listing found.

Craft Supply / Craft Supply of Honolulu

Appears closed

1000 Kamehameha Hwy, Pearl City and 1960 S King St, Honolulu

Both branches appear closed.

Evidence. Yelp lists both as closed and neither has a live Google Business listing. No company statement or news report located.

Bernina of Hawaii

Appears closed

320 Ward Ave, Honolulu

Appears closed. There is no verified Bernina dealer left on the island.

Evidence. Yelp marks it closed. This is a single weak signal and we have found nothing to corroborate it.

KōBō Glass

Appears closed

744 Kapahulu Ave, Honolulu

Appears closed. It was a fused-glass class studio rather than a supplier.

Evidence. No published hours or website on its Google listing, no customer activity since 2019, and Yelp marks it closed. Not confirmed by the owner.

How this was checked

Every address, phone number and set of opening hours here came from the business’s own website or its own Google listing in August 2026, and where those two disagreed we went and worked out which was right rather than picking one. Hawaii Ceramic Supply publishes 1920 Colburn Street on its own site and 1922 on its listing — same building, and we say so on the card rather than leaving you to turn around in the car park.

5 of these shops publish no website and 4 publish no phone number. We have left those fields empty and said so. An earlier draft of this page had a plausible-looking URL attached to a shop that does not have one, which is exactly the kind of thing that sends someone to a dead link and costs you their trust.

8 shops carry a “before you drive over” note. Those are the ones where something is unresolved or counter-intuitive — a shop that is hard to find, stock that comes and goes, a branch that a directory invented. On an island where the wrong assumption costs you forty minutes each way, that seemed worth flagging separately.

We buy supplies here ourselves, for a craft studio in Chinatown. Where a note comes from our own shopping rather than from a published source it is marked as ours, in a different box, so you can tell the difference between a fact and an opinion. Our full verification standards explain the rest.

Shops move, hours change and small ones close quietly. Tell us if something here is wrong — corrections go to the front of the queue, and this page is only worth reading if it stays true.

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