It took a virtuous woman to be a tattooist, and after the tattoo was done, the artist was rewarded with precious gifts. Take the tattooing of an unmarried girl for example: The reward was a blouse embroidered in a relief pattern, and a coat embroidered with a pattern of lines. The manufacture of those clothes would take at least two or three months of hand-weaving.
文面師需貞節者才可擔任，文面師在施術後可獲珍貴報酬，以未婚女的文臉為例，其報酬為浮紋上衣、花紋外披各一件，這些衣服的製作至少要花兩三個月的功夫才可完成。