Ethnologist, researcher, writer and collector Sabiha Tansuğ was born in the town of Komotini in Greece as a child of a Muslim Turkish family from Rumelia. She migrated to the Aegean with her family in August 1941, so she attended primary school in various towns. In the meantime, the wedding dowry items and clothing varieties she saw in the villages constitute her comparative knowledge.
Later, she went to İzmir Göztepe Girls' Art Institute and reached a different perspective with her old childhood memories. Sabiha Tansuğ, who moved to Istanbul in 1951, continues her life by sewing dresses for the elite families of Istanbul. During her trips abroad, she researches the clothing cultures of the countries, visits, looks and examines as many places as there are to see; while visiting museums in Paris, Vienna, London, Romania, Hungary, Denmark, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moscow (and open-air village museums), she improves herself on the traditional costumes of the countries of the world. She
also reflects this knowledge she gained on the journey of her life as a journalist, writer and Turkish Culture to Pierre Loti Coffee. Sabiha Hanım, who restored Pierre Loti in accordance with the Ottoman coffee culture, earned the identity of an ethnographer by ensuring that a coffeehouse in Turkey received a tourism certificate for the first time.
Sabiha Tansuğ, after almost half a century, put her signature on a very special collection that bears the traces of thousands of years of culture in each piece and is unmatched in the world. On the occasion of the '40 Women's Anatolian Headdresses' exhibition, her photograph wearing the Ankara Bridal Headdress was printed on the 50 kuruş banknotes that were in use between 1979 and 1971, making her the only person from the public whose photograph was printed on money in the world.
