India, Feb. 4 -- Tailoring professionals Abdul Hanif Jamader (40), Nisha Susvirkar (45) and Jyoti Kamble (26) have never travelled outside India and aren't quite sure where Rome is. But from January 31, their intricate handiwork will be on display for a year at the exhibition hall of the Vatican Library.

Susvirkar and Kamble are among 150 craftspeople from the Chanakya ateliers, all part of the Mumbai-based Chanakya School of Craft and graduates of the Chanakya School of Craft, whose work - two hand-crafted globes and five maps, made of translucent layers of dried linen and hemp yarn overlaid with contemporary needlepoint stitches - form part of an exhibition titled Il Viaggio (En Route) commissioned by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana...