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, 1b) between elongate limbs (8a, 8b； 9a, 9b) are inflected in kink form. This gives a net design with unexpectedly high strength values.
