The formation

texture and some properties of cyanoethyl cellulose (CEC)/dimethyl aceta-mide (DMA) mesomorphic solutions were studied. The solutions could transform from isotro-pic to anisotropic states through a biphasic range as increasing the concentration. The liquid crystal was cholesteric. Birefringence of the solutions increased with increasing the concentration or dropping of the temperature. The mesomorphic aggregates were composed of many domains whose orientation directions were different when the solutions were in nature. The liquid crystalline solutions which had been sheared could form"band-like"structure in which mole-cular chains oriented nearly along the lines of the shear. The orientatio directions of the molecular chains were different slightly between the neighboring bands.