Another feature initiated during the SFP is the addition of a second pair of leaves, as seen here and also on Plate 10. The presence of this feature cannot be considered indicative of age. Plate 11, which is from a later time than either of them, has the earlier single pair of leaves style.

The second reason is the hillock or mound instead the typical exposed root or the vase and water-pot treatment seen in the previous example. This type of portrayal is extremely rare and only a small number of examples on hillocks are known. The fact the next two examples are also shown atop hillocks should not be construed as anything to the contrary.

Other writers have suggested the hillock and plant style was derived from the cosmic tree myth or a symbolic axis mundi ideology. While I do not agree with this view the purposeful addition of the hillock could very well have originally carried some symbolic meaning but there is nothing to substantiate it was connected with either or both of these conventions. Like many other aspects of Kashmir shawls and their manufacture this is but another question that perhaps will be answered through further research .

It might be pertinent to take this opportunity to reiterate not all shawls made in the SFP were decorated with small flowers. Some, like the next two, have a single row of large plants, rather than multiple rows of smaller sprigs. However, all of the single row plants were represented in the composite flower style, no period revivalist single flowered ones have yet to be discovered.

Plate Six's floral composition is the prototype these and all others conform to and comparing these examples makes this quite clear. There are, of course, noticeable changes in both positioning of the flowers, the number of different ones and their realism. But in general there are more similarities than differences as the following examples demonstrate.