Nautical Line Winding Fixture

[Toolmaker51]

With a few decades of boating [the big gray ones] and who knows how ma&ny cables wrapped, I'll add this; they have a distinction.
And that is Braid vs Twist. When Mr. Sparber posted about laying down long garden hose, that demonstrated 'faking down', a form of figure eight, but the ends aren't adjacent, they are stepped. That allows smooth deployment without tangle, because nothing intersects. Braid and twist both react correctly. Braid has very little tendency to kink because how it's made, the strands do intersect each other, equaling the binding natural in twist material. His fixture accomplishes compact faking that maintains shape for use because the bitter end taken through the upper end of the hank. It could even be passed or thrown a distance and remain compact.

Twisted material are made [laid] just as it sounds, whether stranded electrical wire & cords, wire rope, or line; twisted into lengths of merchandise. The effects are seen in different situations. Unspool some wire, connect some circuits, then try winding it back in place. The normal tendency is spool in one hand [stationary] and wrapping the wire - held tight enough for grip - around the spool; it's near unavoidable, your wrist imparts a new incorrect twist.
The remedy turns the spool, attaining wire in same twist as made.
If you wrap an extension cord [most do it clockwise only] you still induce twist; unless you 'feel' for the natural twist and release before it reaches the loop. Usually it will still birdnest if you hold one end and throw.
The electricians chain is barely half an answer. The multiple knots control tangle, if 100' of Shirley Temple trip hazards works in your environment. Using it, at least double up overall length [one half] beforehand.
Our own Mr. K's link offers simplest method for TWIST material like cords, by over-under aka the roadies method, which inverts the twist alternately.