Our retail hours are 10am-6pm Monday through Friday and 10am-5pm on Saturday (closed on Sunday). If you are in the St Paul, Minnesota area, we hope you will drop by our retail location to enjoy our beads and atmosphere. Please let us know where you heard about us and feel free to bring some of your own beadwork for us to look at. We love knowing that our beads are going to good homes.

Stormcloud Trading is also known as BeadStorm. As specialists in small beads and beading accessories for the Contemporary and the Traditional beader, we are proud of the selection that we can offer you. Please look through our ever-expanding web site for information and current pricing on the variety of items we provide.

Stormcloud Trading (BeadStorm) began its retail operation in 1987 after several years of wholesale operations. Setting our goal to provide the largest selection of small beads and seed beads in the Upper Midwest, we expanded to include Japanese seed beads a few years later and currently carry one of the largest selections of seed beads from Japan and from the Czech Republic in the United States. When joined with our huge selection of Austrian Swarovski lead crystals, Czech Republic pressed glass, large variety of beading books, and findings, needles, threads, etc., we feel confident that we can supply your beading needs.