A study of the preferred orientations and microstructure of armco iron after cold reduction and recrystallization has been made.The treatments consisted of hot-rolling the material into strips and (1) a cold reduction of 98.8 percent or ( 2 ) two cycles of cold reduction of about 64 percent with an intermediate anneal. All these specimens for recrystallization were treated in hydrogen at 650° and 1000℃.The components after deformation for material (1) were found to be (100) [011] +(112) [110] + (111) [112] . The primary orientations of the specimens treated in a and γ regions were determined as (100) [011] and (111) [112] .The cold rolling textures of material ( 2 ) were found to be the same as those of (1), the deviation angle being larger. The surface texture was different from the texture possessed by inside of the sheet. The microstructure showed the phe-namena of secondary recrystallization for the samples treated at higher temperature.