A custom map and international list of creative reuse centers – stores that sell upcycled materials, craft supplies, and more!
If you’re googling ‘ creative reuse center near me ‘ hopefully you’ll find my page! This amazing organization concept can be tough to track down because they all have different names. After stumbling on one while traveling, I decided to make a map that makes it easier to map them out. There is also an organized list below – please leave a comment if I’ve missed any that you know of! If you don’t know what a creative reuse center is, keep reading and I’ll explain. The map is at the very end of this post!
This list has been up for several years at this point and multiple websites have since published identical posts, sometimes clearly copy/pasting all my text or even embedding my map. On one hand – I’m thrilled for more people to know about creative reuse centers and spread the word! On the other hand, copy/pasting someone else’s list is not cool – and leads to heartache if they aren’t updating it. At any rate, I am so thankful for the dozens of people who regularly leave comments about new stores or stores shutting down. I keep my list updated regularly and appreciate everyone who helps me keep this as robust as it can be!
**I will always make a note in my weekly newsletter when I add new ones to the list, so subscribe if you don’t want to miss anything, it is emailed out every friday!** [Last update to this list: 6/18/2025]
These centers serve as secondhand stores for traditional arts and crafts supplies alongside ‘upcycled’ materials that are great for projects like plastic spools, factory offcuts of fabric or leather, old CDs, bottle tops, and more! They serve to keep things out of a landfill and often run creative classes and workshops. They’re a great place to look for creative inspiration or to pass along your old supplies or recyclables!
If you like this post, check out these others while you’re here! I have lots of upcycling inspiration past these 4, just some of my favorites!
- Five tips for thrift shopping to upcycle & refashion
- 20+ upcycled thread spool crafts
- What to do with old jeans – 45+ upcycle sewing tutorials
- Why you should shop at Goodwill Outlet if you sew/craft
You often pay by the pound or there is a flat rate to fill a bag, making it a really affordable way to get crafty. I’ve been to two in the past and stumbled on the most recent one by chance, so I decided to make a map of where all the active ones were so I could check it when we traveled! Please leave a comment if you know of one that I didn’t include.
I also noted craft/sewing focused thrift stores that are more traditional without the upcycled materials, just to keep it green! I have not included any online-only stores – just places you can walk in the door. Check out this post for places to shop secondhand crafts/fabric online.
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A creative reuse center near me map resource!
First, a list state by state (and international countries too) – keep scrolling to see the map at the end! The map will not show any groups that are operating as a pop-up only without a permanent address, those will only be in the list below:
Please note that:
- I will keep this list as updated as I can via comments or feedback, but always double check before stopping by!
- Many of these places also offer workshops and classes!
- ” No upcycleables” means that generally speaking, they do not accept or sell things like bottle caps, old jars, board game pieces, empty containers, or wine corks – but instead accept and sell secondhand fabric and/or craft supplies like you might find at JOANN or Michael’s!
Alaska
- Anchorage re:MADE– Anchorage, AK
- Treasure Trader (craft supplies only, no upcycleables)- Wasilla, AK
- Upcycle Annex (craft supplies only, no upcycleables)- Fairbanks, AK (this was submitted by someone who works there, she affirmed that it was open to the public and included some craft supplies!)
Arizona
- Art Resource Center– Tempe, AZ
California
- Art FORM– San Diego, CA
- Art from Scrap, Santa Barbara, California
- Creative Notions (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Cloverdale, CA
- Creative Upcycle– Pleasant Hill, CA
- East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse – Oakland, CA
- Ecoset (a little different set-up but includes fabric and arts/crafts supplies for sure)- Los Angeles, CA
- Fabmo – Sunnyvale, CA
- Lucky DeLuxe Fabrics (fabric & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)– Orange, CA
- Material Happiness (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- San Diego, CA
- ReCreate – Rocklin, CA
- reDiscover Center – Los Angeles, CA
- Remainders Creative Reuse– Pasadena, CA
- Reuse Arts & Crafts– Berkley, CA
- SCRAP – San Francisco, CA
- The Legacy (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables) – Sebastopol, CA
Colorado
- Art Parts Creative Reuse Center – Boulder, CO
- ReCreative Denver– Denver, CO
- The Craft Box (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Wheat Bridge, CO
- Who Gives a Scrap – Colorado Springs, CO
Connecticut
- EcoWorks Creative Reuse – North Haven, CT
Florida
- Bottom of the Barrel (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Seminole, FL
- Creative Junk Therapy – Brandon, FL
- Resource Depot – West Palm Beach, FL
- Reusuable Resources ADVENTURE Center – West Melbourne, FL
- The Repurpose Project – Gainesville, FL
Idaho
- Cats Eye Creative Reuse – Boise, ID
- The ReUse Market – Boise, ID
Iowa
- Make It Yours Upcycle Center – Maquoketa, IA
- Partial Arts– Pleasant Hill, Iowa
- The create/exchange– Cedar Rapids, IA
Illinois
- Creative Reuse Marketplace – Springfield, IL
- Greener Good – Arlington Heights, IL
- Stock & Pile inside Skeleton Key Antiques (art/craft/sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Rock Island, IL
- The Idea Room – Urbana, IL
- The MAC Thrifter (art/craft/sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Staunton, IL
- The WasteShed – Chicago, IL
- The WastesShed Evanston – Evanston, IL
Indiana
- Art Remains– Bloomington, IN
Georgia
- Scraplanta Creative Reuse – Atlanta, GA
- Starlandia Supply (art/craft/sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Savannah, GA
Kansas
- A Thrifty Notion (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies)- Ogden, KS
Kentucky
- Artmarkit (coming soon with a store!)- Covington, KY
- LEX Center for Creative Reuse– Lexington, KY
Louisiana
- Deuxième Vie Creative– Lafayette, LA
- ricRACK (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies) – New Orleans, LA
Maine
- Past + Future Craft Exchange (art/craft/sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Westbrook, ME
Maryland
- BlackRock Center for the Arts (no constant physical location yet, takes donations/has pop up events)- Germantown, Maryland
- SCRAP B-more – Baltimore, MD
Massachusetts
- Make & Mend (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Somerville, MA
- Paper City Fabrics (fabric & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies)- Holyoke, MA
- Swanson’s Fabric (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies)- Turners Falls, MA
Michigan
- Arts and Scraps – Detroit, MI
- SCRAP Creative Reuse – Ann Arbor, MI
Minnesota
- ArtScraps Reuse Center – St. Paul, MN
Missouri
- Arrow Creative Reuse – Springfield, MO
- City Sewing Room (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- St. Louis, MO
- Como CraftCycle– Columbia, MO
- Leftovers – St. Louis, MO
- Magpie Creative Reuse Collective (no constant physical location yet, takes donations/has pop up events)- Kansas City, MO
- Perennial– St. Louis, MO
- Scrapskc – Kansas City, MO
Nebraska
- Creative Reuse Omaha Inc.– Omaha, NE
- Stuff Creative Reuse (no constant physical location yet, takes donations/has pop up events)- Lincoln, NE
New Hampshire
- Craft and Found Exchange (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Grantham, NH
- DIY Craft and Thrift (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Concord, NH
New Jersey
- Propogate Studio Art Supply Thrift Shop (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Stewartsville, NJ
- Propogate Art Supply Thrift Shop booth inside The squirrels Nest (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Woodstown, NJ
New York
- Craft Bits & Pieces (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Fairport, NY
- Crafting For Good (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables) – North Chili, NY
- FABSCRAP (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies) – Brooklyn, NY
- Retake/Remake – Peekskill, NY
- Secondwave Supplies (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Beacon, NY
- Sew Green (fabric & craft supplies, no upcycle-ables) – Ithaca, NY
- Sew Green (fabric & craft supplies, no upcycle-ables) – Rochester, NY
- Sew What (fabric & craft supplies, no upcycle-ables)- Auburn, NY
- Stitch Buffalo’s Second Stitch (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Buffalo, NY
- Up-Stitch (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Albany, NY
North Carolina
- Reconsidered Goods – Greensboro, NC
- ReMix It (no constant physical location, takes donations/has pop up events)- Asheville, NC
- Remnants Thrift and Sew (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies – also has a regular thrift store that funds the community sewing space)- Mars Hill, NC
- Sunshine Creative Reuse (no constant physical location, takes donations/has pop up events)- Brevard, NC
- The Art SHAC– Winston Salem, NC
- The Scrap Exchange – Durham, NC
- Upcycle Arts– Charlotte, NC
- Village Fabric Shop (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies, a portion of a regular fabric store) – Winston-Salem, NC
- 923 Fabrics & Crafts (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies) – Monroe, NC
Ohio
- Indigo Hippo– Cincinnati, OH
- Re-Craft Steubenville – Steubenville, OH (no constant physical location, takes donations/has pop up events. fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)
- Scrap 4 Art -Maumee, OH
- Scrap It Up– Cincinnati, OH
- Upcycle Parts Shop – Cleveland, OH
Oklahoma
- Sew Bewitching (fabric/sewing stuff ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies)- Oklahoma City, OK
- Trove Arts & Crafts (fabric & craft supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Oklahoma City, OK
Oregon
- MECCA – Eugene, OR
- ReClaim It – Portland, OR
- Scrap PDX – Portland, OR
Pennsylvania
- Art of Recycle – Ephrata, PA
- Lancaster Creative Reuse – Lancaster, PA
- Pittsburgh Center For Creative Reuse – Pittsburgh, PA
- Scraps & Skeins – State College, Pennsylvania
- The Resource Exchange -Philadelphia, PA
Rhode Island
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Creative Reuse Center of RI – East Providence, RI
South Carolina
- ReCraft Creative Reuse Center – Greenville, SC
- SCRAP – Spartanburg, SC
South Dakota
- JAM Art & Supplies (no constant physical location, takes donations/has pop up events of art supplies)- Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Tennessee
- Smart Art + Craft Supplies – Nashville, TN
- Sustainable Fabric Workshop (article about them if you don’t use facebook) (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies) – Knoxville, TN
- Turnip Green Creative Reuse – Nashville, TN
Texas
- Artable Curiousities – Seguin, TX
- Austin Creative Reuse Center – Austin, TX
- Houston Center for Creative Reuse – Houston, TX
- Pegasus Creative Reuse– Dallas, TX
- Spare Parts– San Antonio, TX
- Texas Art Asylum – Houston, TX
- The Welman Project– Fort Worth, TX
- Thistle Creative Reuse– Denton, TX
- Untrash Creative Reuse – Richardson, TX
Utah
- Making Space Thrift Store (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables) – Springville, UT
Vermont
- rePlay Arts– White River Junction, VT
- reMake creative reuse shop– Rutland, VT
- The Makery – Burlington, VT
Virginia
- 757 Creative ReUse Center – Norfolk, VA
- Art Hive– Staunton,VA
- Dabble Creative Reuse Center– Manassas,VA
- NOVA Creative Reuse– Leesburg, VA
- SCRAP Creative Reuse – Richmond, VA
- The Scrappy Elephant– Charlottesvilla & Palmyra, VA
- UpCycle Creative Reuse Center – Alexandria, VA
- Upsy Daisy Creative Reuse Center– Hayes, VA
- Valley Creative Reuse– Harrisonburg, VA
Washington
- Allied Arts Reuse Thrift Store (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Bellingham, WA
- Art Salvage – Spokane, WA.
- Lost & Found Crafts (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Olympia, WA
- Our Fabric Stash (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies)- Seattle, WA
- Ragfinery (fabric ONLY, no upcycle-ables or craft supplies)- Bellingham, WA
- Remakery Tacoma– Tacoma, WA
- Seattle ReCreative – Seattle, WA
- Seattle ReCreative Georgetown-Seattle, WA
- Tinkertopia – Tacoma, WA
West Virginia
- Thistlebit Creative Reuse– Elkins, WV
Wisconsin
- Hello Art Hatchery (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables)- Stoughton, WI
- Hello Happiness Creativity Center (craft & sewing supplies ONLY, no upcycle-ables) – Sheboygan, WI
Outside the US
If the website isn’t in English, I checked it with https://translate.google.com/ as best I could!
Australia
- Hawkesbury Remakery– New South Wales, Australia
- REmida Perth – West Perth, Australia
- Reverse Garbage NSW – New South Wales, Australia
- The Nest Haberdashery– Brisbane, Australia
Belgium
- Rest – Mortsel, Belgium
Canada
- ArtsJunktion mb – Winnipeg, Canada
- Blenderz (fabric/sewing supplies only, no craft supplies or upcycleables)- Alberta, Canada
- Concordia University’s Used Material Depot – Montreal, Canada
- Fabcycle – Vancouver, Canada
- Hodgepodge Lodge– Alberta, Canada
- Nefelibata Arts and Crafts (fabric & craft supplies, not upcycleables) – Saskatchewan, Canada
- Our Social Fabric (fabric only, no craft supplies or upcycleables) – Vancouver, Canada
- Supply Victoria– British Columbia, Canada
- Thrift/Craft Alternative Art Supply– British Columbia, Canada
- Urban Source -Vancouver, Canada
- WIN Resale Shop – Craft & Upcycling Store (fabric only, no craft supplies or upcycleables)-British Columbia, Canada
UK
- Big C Furniture & Craft Emporium (fabric & craft supplies only, no upcycleables)- Wymondham, UK
- Children’s Scrapstore – Bristol, UK
- Community Scrapstore North Somerset – North Somerset, UK
- Scraptastic– West Yorkshire, UK
- Scrap Creative Reuse Arts Project Ltd – Leeds, UK
- Swindon Children’s Scrapstore – Swindon, UK
- Work and Play Scrapstore– London, UK
Netherlands
Spain
- Taller Obert– Gironia, Spain
Switzerland
- OFFCUT– Zürich, Switzerland
- OFFCUT– Bern, Switzerland
- OFFCUT– Basel, Switzerland
- OFFCUT– St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sam
Wednesday 11th of June 2025
The Makery in Burlington, VT!
Stephanie - Swoodson Says
Wednesday 18th of June 2025
thank you so much!! got it added!
dee
Saturday 31st of May 2025
new one in California, Pleasant Hill: https://www.creativeupcycle.org/
Stephanie - Swoodson Says
Friday 6th of June 2025
thanks so much, got it added!
Joan Gleckler
Wednesday 28th of May 2025
Don’t forget Scraplanta in Atlanta, GA!
Stephanie - Swoodson Says
Friday 6th of June 2025
It's on there already :) I've been to that one, it's great!
Jeff
Friday 9th of May 2025
Thank you for maintaining this list! You could add the Remakery Tacoma, in WA, to your list. They just opened their space in the last few months, I believe. Great folks.
https://www.remakerytacoma.org/
Stephanie - Swoodson Says
Friday 9th of May 2025
thank you for adding to it!! got them on there, you rock!
Syeda
Tuesday 6th of May 2025
I wanted to suggest adding 2 more places :)
I was travelling in New York state and just got informed about a new creative reuse store, Second Wave Supplies. Their address is 333 Fishkill Ave, Beacon, NY 12508. Their Instagram is @Secondwavesupplies and they're on Facebook as well.
Also I visited Seattle ReCreative and learned that there is a 2nd Seattle ReCreative location, in Georgetown. Their address is 6521 5th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108.
Stephanie - Swoodson Says
Friday 9th of May 2025
amazing!! got them both added, thank you so much!