Creping adhesive for creping tissue paper

1. An aqueous dispersion useful as a creping adhesive comprising cationic starch, said cationic starch having between about 0.001 and about 0.2 cationic substituents per anhydroglucose unit of starch, said aqueous dispersion containing from about 90% to about 99.9% water.

2. An aqueous dispersion of claim 1 further comprising a polyvinyl alcohol, said cationic starch comprising from about 105 to about 70% of the dry weight of the dispersion and said polyvinyl alcohol comprising from about 30% to about 90% of the dry weight of the dispersion.

3. The aqueous dispersion of claim 2 in which said polyvinyl alcohol has a degree of hydrolysis between about 80% and about 95%.

4. The aqueous dispersion of claim 3 in which said polyvinyl alcohol has a viscosity greater than about 35 centipoise.

5. The aqueous dispersion of claim 4 wherein said cationic substituents of said cationic starch is selected from the group consisting of tertiary aminoalkyl ethers, quaternary ammonium alkyl ethers and mixtures thereof.

6. The aqueous dispersion of claim 1 further comprising a water soluble, thermosetting, cationic polyamide-epihalohydrin resin, said cationic starch comprising from about 50% to about 90% of the dry weight of the dispersion and said cationic polyamide-epihalohydrin resin comprising from about 10% to about 50%of the dry weight of the dispersion.

7. The aqueous dispersion of claim 6 further comprising a polyvinyl alcohol, said cationic starch comprising from about 10% to about 70%of the dry weight of the dispersion and said cationic polyamide-epihalohydrin resin comprising from about 5% to about 40% of the dry weight of the dispersion and said polyvinyl alcohol comprising from about 20% to about 85of the dry weight of the dispersion.

8. The aqueous dispersion of claim 7 wherein said polyamide-epihalohydrin resin comprises the reaction product of an epihalohydrin and a polyamide containing secondary amine groups or tertiary amine groups.

9. The aqueous dispersion of claim 8 wherein said polyamide-epihalohydrin resin comprises the reaction product of an epihalohydrin and a polyamide containing secondary amine groups, the mole ratio of epihalohydrin to secondary amine groups of said polyamide being from about 0.5 to 1 to about 2 to 1.

10. The aqueous dispersion of claim 9 wherein said polyamide containing secondary amine groups is obtained by reaction a C.sub.3 -C.sub.10 saturated aliphatic dibasic carboxylic acid and a polyalkylene polyamine in a mole ratio of polyalkylene to dibasic carboxylic acid of from about 0.8 to 1 to about 1.5 to 1.

11. The aqueous dispersion of claim 10 in which the water soluble, thermosetting, polyamide-epihalohydrin cationic resin is the reaction product of an epihalohydrin and a polyamide precursor containing the recurring group

--NH(C.sub.n H.sub.2n HN).sub.x --CORCO--

wherein n and x are each 2 or more and R is a saturated aliphatic chain having 3-10 carbon atoms.

12. The aqueous dispersion of claim 9 wherein said epihalohydrin is epichlorohydrin.

13. The aqueous dispersion of claim 12 wherein said aliphatic dibasic carboxylic acid is adipic acid.

14. The aqueous dispersion of claim 13 wherein said polyalkylene polyamine is diethylenetriamine.