Simple five strand braid.
A easy way to braid with five strands.

Arrange your strings like this. Take the rightmost string and let it jump to the middle. Take the leftmost string and let it jump to the middle. From here on you just repeat, rightmost string to the middle.
Leftmost string to the middle. You can keep on going this way forever. You can also braid from the middle, but I did not put that in drawings, try it and see if you like the way .
 
Back to start. one step backwards.
©Willeke 2005