Why do knitting yarn manufacturers no longer sell their product in skeins?
It’s pretty much a question of where the yarn is actually made and what machinery is available to the spinning mill to be honest. Many yarns are still put up in hanks that require being wound into balls, but the majority these days is wound into some sort of ball. For foreign spun yarn more balls can be shipped in a container since it’s is more compact than hanks. As for rewinding, absolutely. I almost always rewind my yarns regardless of the put up means (there are a few brands I absolutely trust not to have problems in the ball 99.99% of the time, but very few, Brown Sheep and Dale of Norway).after having an entire 20 ball bag of some very expensive yarn in a small put up ball with way too many knots in it. I use a ball winder to do this (the *cakes* of yarn don’t roll away), tucking a *ball* into a shopping bag over the arm of the winder. I also have a swift for the hanks I buy or spin on my own. This allows me to find knots and remove them before I knit with them, or slubs or bad s
