Soft throughdried tissues, which are sufficiently soft to serve as premium
bathroom tissues, can be made without the use of a Yankee dryer. The
typical Yankee functions of building machine direction and cross-machine
direction stretch are replaced by a wet end rush transfer and the
throughdrying fabric design, respectively. It is particularly
advantageous to form the tissue with chemimechanically treated fibers in
at least one layer. The resulting tissues have high bulk (about 6 cubic
centimeters per gram or greater) and low stiffness.