Textures in steels play an essential role for applications where anisotropic properties are favourable. For the example of deep-drawing steel sheet the correlation between parameters characterising the behaviour in the deep-drawing process, as Lankford r-value and planar anisotropy Δr, and the crystallographic texture is considered. Furthermore, the development of texture in the course of manufacturing cold strip is followed for unalloyed and microalloyed deep-drawing grades. For representation of typical features of textures the method of orientation distribution functions (ODF) together with the description of texture by characteristic fibres is used. In detail, the parameters influencing textures, such as chemical composition, finishing temperature in the hot-rolling mill (in relation to the austenite or ferrite region), transformation behaviour, cold-rolling reduction and the course of temperature during recrystallizing annealing, are discussed. From the given survey it may be concluded, that in the manufacturing process there are many possibilities to control the texture of the finished product. Finally, it is shown that the impact of textures on the r-value can be calculated with high precision. On the other hand, the formation of texture itself, particularly during hot-rolling, transformation and recrystallization after cold-rolling, at present can be calculated and modelled only in simple cases.