You did say "Rodin" in your posts above,
so your indicating toroidal windings in nature.
I'm guess you mean something small enough in diameter
that it will pass through the center hole as a threading bobbin.
I'm guessing you meant 1" long,
by 1/4" max diameter above.
The easiest is to use an elongated H shuttle bobbin,
like fishermen use to repair fishing nets and so forth.
Tubes have been used before,
but they tend to put a twist in the wire.
Think of those packets of solder in a tube,
as you draw from the coil in them,
they twist the solder into a helix badly.
Then again, you may mean a spooling effect instead.
As long as you unwind it one turn
per each pass through the center,
that might work out fine I suppose.
I have seen somewhere long thin bobbins
for hand held sewing machines,
and tubes to store them in.
Poke a hole in the side of the storage container
near one end, and you might be a happy camper.
Well, you'd still have to cut the wire by hand...
Did I guess close to what you meant though ?
I used Google-images to get a few
pics of what I meant above.
