In business since 1947 and respected for its experience and expertise, Nickerson and Hills is located on Main Street near the intersection of Weston Street. The company sells fine art supplies, paint, wallpaper, window treatments and more. In addition to direct sales to contractors and the general public, Nickerson & Hills is also a full-service home improvement contractor. Using its own employees, the company completes interior and exterior painting projects and hangs wallpaper. Free parking is available in the rear of the store.
Located in downtown Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard Art Association Old Sculpin Gallery is an art gallery that also houses an art school with art classes and workshops for both children and adults while offering rotating shows throughout their season of featured artists. It also houses a permanent collection of paintings. Over 240 years old, the building is a museum and a historic property.
Bead + Fiber is housed in a lovely room made entirely of glass windows, allowing the store's countless beads to glow on a sunny day. Inside, you'll find a vast array of supplies needed to create beads of all sorts including glass and bone and fibers such as yarn and wool. Bead +Fiber offers classes in all kinds of techniques such as bead stringing, knotting, felting, knitting, weaving, and repurposing your jewelry. There is also a gallery featuring finished works available for purchase.
This is the local branch of Paper Source, which carries specialty paper, stationery, scrapbooking materials, greeting cards, photo albums and gift wrap. It also offers customized invitations. Its designers hold workshops each month. Past workshops have included Notable Resumes, Rookie Rubber Stamping and Flower Felting; for a schedule, see the Paper Source website.
When Rugg Road Paper Company was first founded in 1982, it was a handmade paper-making shop that catered to the local art community. The shop currently maintains that heritage by stocking over 600 types of hand-made paper from around the world, but also meets all the practical paper needs of the Beacon Hill community by providing greeting cards, stationary, recycled paper products, gift supplies and in-house gift wrapping services, wedding invitations, photo albums, notebooks, rubber stamp kits, and more.
Situated on the street level of the large brick building at the corner of Main and State in Vineyard Haven, Educomp occupies the largest space on the first level. Downstairs from Edible Vineyard, a popular island publication, Educomp offers not only repair and supplies for computers and printers, it also has a wide selection of art and craft supplies, from eggshell white acrylic paint to X-acto knives.