Abstract: There are provided novel antistatic carpet yarns and carpets as well as novel compositions of matter and methods for the chemical treatment of carpet yarns and carpets in order to impart to such textile materials substantially durable hydrophilic, soil-repellency and antistatic properties that will be retained despite rigorous exposure to washing, foam, vacuum and steam cleaning, and wear under high compression loads (or foot-traffic), without any adverse effect on dyestuffs or flammability. The method consists essentially in first treating the carpet yarn or carpet made of preferably synthetic fiber material (by such per se well known methods as padding, spraying or transfer-roll) with an aqueous emulsion which forms a normally solid coating consisting essentially of:A. at least one phase of an alkylphenol which is insoluble in water and which is dissolved in an alcohol, a ketone, or other organic solvent;B.