I know that with my cross stitch, we usually refer to it as a 'specialty fiber'. Guess that applies here too. As you can tell from my avatar. <------
That's the old man in my house - besides my husband. That is Boomer - although it has slowly changed to booger - and he was a rescue, just like everyone else in our house. He came from the shelter when he was 4 days old and I hand raised him. He is now almost 10yo.