In order to make a high quality color cathode ray tube, the influence of the texture on the etching property of an invar (Fe-36%Ni) shadow mask sheet has been studied. For the etching property, new values (gR-, aRvalue) are presented which are estimated with the intensity of the inverse pole figure for the normal direction of the sheet. Furthermore, for the decision of the etching property, RD-values which are calculated with ODF are suggested. A good etching property is obtained when the RD-value is more than 2.