The orientations of individual grains in cold‐rolled and annealed silicon‐iron strip are obtained for a single‐component texture and a multiple‐component texture to determine (1) the preferred orientations in the two textures and (2) some information on the nature of formation of the textures. A set of three axis density figures and a (100) pole density figure are synthesized for the multicomponent texture. It is concluded from the figures that the axis density figures give more information about the components present in the texture than a (100) pole figure does. It is also concluded that oriented nucleation is important in the development of the textures.