Cropped completed Coral Coast art.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Detail of green tube corals.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Work-in-progress photo including detail of several corals.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Close-up detail of brain coral, made from needle felted spun yarn.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Close-up detail of several corals.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Close-up detail of several corals.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

View of wet-felted-then-dyed background with needle felted school of fish. Some free-motion stitching was done to the background prior to needle felting to create edges of distant structures in the background.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Full completed piece with SE2SE passport.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Slightly zoomed-in image of the top of the coral reef with the school of fish.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Close-up detail of several corals.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.

Artist signature on the Coral Coast piece.

Coral Coast is a needle felted relief art piece that utilized several fiber art techniques. The piece is made entirely from the fleece of the Gulf Coast Native sheep, a critically endangered American heritage breed, as part of Livestock Conservancy’s SE2SE program. Magi used multiple techniques for the purpose of exploring the breed’s fleece for fiber arts, including how well it takes dye, wet felts, dry felts (also known as needle felting) and spins into yarn, as well as featuring the structure of the lock in the coral design. The spun yarn was needle felted onto the piece as a textural element.

Coral Coast is sold.