A net in particular for protection safety water rearing or architectural purposes is braided together from individual helically curved longitudinal elements (3) to form a braided structure. Individual longitudinal elements (3) curved into a cylinder or screw shape are twisted one inside the other with adjacent ones and compressed such that the braided structure is in more or less planar sheet like form and the longitudinal elements (3) here each form more or less rectilinear limbs (8a 8b； 9a 9b) and curves (10a 10b； 11a 11b) therebetween. The curves (10a 10b； 11a 11b) between elongate limbs (8a 8b； 9a 9b) are inflected in kink form. This gives a net design with unexpectedly high strength values.
