Abstract: The commercial grain-oriented silicon steel was reduced to thin strips via symmetric and asymmetric cold rolling, which were annealed with and without magnetic field. The effects of magnetic field and asymmetric rolling on primary recrystallization textures were investigated. It was found that magnetic annealing can significantly increase Goss texture component ({100}<100>) in symmetrically rolled thin strip but decrease it in asymmetrically rolled thin strip. Asymmetric rolling can increase Goss component after ordinary annealing but decrease it obviously after magnetic annealing. The effect of magnetic field on recrystallization texture can be explained in terms of the change in grain boundary migration caused by magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy and magnetic ordering.