This study examined the electrospinning of PVA. All the major factors in the electrospinning process were examined. Varying the pH insignificantly affected the formation of fibers. Increasing the electrode voltage and the salt concentration negatively influenced the ES process. The salt concentration that yielded an acceptable ES membrane without droplets was below 0.001 N. Also, the decrease in elongation viscosity, instead of the increase in electrical conductivity, was the major cause of the negative effect of the addition of salt to a PVA solution. The negative effect of adding the salt increased in the order CaCl2 < NaCl< NaI< KBr< KI. Experimental results demonstrated that the ES processability of PVA solution depends primarily on the concentration and secondly on the molecular weight of the dissolved polymer. The PVA solution prepared with higher molecular weight exhibited a lower concentration window in an ES process. The concentration window of the PVA solution, with an MW of 88,000 in the ES process falls between 6 and 14 wt%. Moreover, experimental results demonstrated that the upper limit on the PVA concentration, 14 wt%, is strongly related to the extension viscosity of the spun solution. Whenever the power law index n associated with extension exceeded one, spinning was infeasible, regardless of whether the power law index n associate with shearing was still in a normal range. In short, this stud