Experimental investigations in a non-destructive way are very attractive for applied research, such as radiography, tomography, strain and texture analysis. In the case of texture measurements one needs on one hand a beam with a high penetration power and on the other hand equipment to define a volume element inside a sample precisely. High penetration power particular for metals is given by thermal neutrons and by high-energy synchrotron radiation (100keV - 200keV). Thermal neutrons have been used to study the texture inhomogeneity of tensile samples, tubes and turbine blades. Non-destructive texture measurements are also interesting for the comparison of identical samples at different states (low cycle tests, recovery and annealing). The paper will present some typical examples. High-energy synchrotron measurements have a very high potential but compared to neutron texture measurements the synchrotron method is relatively new. That means synchrotron beam time for a large variety of samples and for the investigation of a set of samples particular in a non-destructive way is not available up to now. The present state of synchrotron texture measurements is to improve the experimental techniques.