This Manual - a reprint of the second edition of 1988 - gives a comprehensive course of
instructions for oblique interlacing. Starting with the basic knowledge it gradually advances
to more complex and eventually to the highest spheres. A consistent terminology a list of
criteria for classification and an original system of representation will help the theorist in
his quest for analytical understanding. The practitioner will find a view over the traditional
Braiding Methods several of them newly discovered in the author's lifelong research. ... It is
a veritable mine of information for those who just want to know methods plus a rigorous
intellectual framework into which any structure and any technique can be logically fitted. It
is a real creation - something which did not exist until you came along and made it. You have
both explored a strange country and provided a fool-proof way for those who want to follow. A
personal letter from Peter Collingwood to the author in 1983
