Dressing the Church: one of Rome's last clergyman tailors
Dressing the Church: one of Rome's last clergyman tailors

With a tape measure around his neck and a thimble on his finger, Raniero Mancinelli slides a needle into a black cassock with red piping destined for a Catholic cardinal.

Mancinelli, one of Rome's last ecclesiastical tailors, has dressed many popes and clergymen since he opened his business in 1962.