About
Boston Design Laboratory
Boston Design Laboratory founder Shirley Willett has developed
a new production pattern system called Stylometrics, which makes possible the
efficient production of couture designs. Her research and development reaches
back a lifetime to when she worked as a stitcher in the very first apparel factories
where European Jews and other skilled old-world tailors of Boston were using
the world's first production patterns. Their elegant innovation would soon be
discovered the world over and develop into the apparel industry as we have come
to know it.
The mentor-apprentice
relationship that was so crucial to the transference of these very specialized
skills, has been lost to fashion design education. BDL is dedicated to the mentoring
of Boston's young designers, empowering them with the simplicity Stylometrics
affords them to profitably produce their own couture designs on any scale.