Kalea Veremenko-Beckman (she/her) is a full-time mother and caregiver, textile artist, and aspiring urban homesteader. Her work explores the intersection of traditional craft, sustainability, and domestic life, with a focus on natural dyeing, breed-specific wools, and local production.

Kalea holds an MA in General Arts from the University of St Andrews, and completed graduate coursework in Communication for Development at Malmö University, as well as Level 1 of the Master Spinner Program at Olds College.

From 2014 to 2020, Kalea co-owned the Alberta Yarn Project, a community-focused initiative that championed regional wool and local textile production, and in 2020 she launched Luddite Yarn, an independent yarn brand rooted in natural dyeing and ethical sourcing. She is the co-creator of Parkland Blanket Wool, available at Gather Textiles, and in 2023, co-founded Traceable Textiles, a weaving studio dedicated to producing wool blankets using breed-specific fleeces and fully traceable supply chains.

Kalea stepped away from professional work in 2024 to focus on parenting and caregiving, but maintains an active textile practice at home, and continues to share her knitting patterns, dye experiments, and fibre journey online and at occasional speaking events.