In wet spinning of polyvinyl alcohol fibers, aqueous solutions saturated with salt such as sodium sulfate are usually employd as a coagulation bath. However, sodium sulfate salted out during drying process obstructs the operation such as heat-treatment. As the polyvinyl alcohol fibers, stretched adequately in coagulation bath, become insoluble in water under tension, the effects of washing on the fibers were investigated under the conditions mentioned above. The conclusions were as follows.By washing the stretched fibers under tension, the operations such as drying and heating process became smooth and the strength of the fibers thus removed salt was improved.Conventional wet-spun polyvinyl alcohol fibers microscopically two regions, i.e. the skin and core regions, and show a paler and duller shade as compared with the dry-spun polyvinyl alcohol fibers under same dyeing conditions. Such properties of dyeings seems mainly to be due to the presence of a porous structure of the core in the wet-spun fibers. By stretching the wet-spun fibers at adequate ratio, washing at adequate interval and succeeding drying at high temperature, such fiber structure disappears. The fibers heat-treated and formalized after above treatment show a deeper and brighter shade as compared with conventional wet-spun fibers under same dyeing conditions.