The batik making tools displayed at National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta. From center top: canting a fine tool to apply wax; from left to right: wooden brush with coconut fibre hair, Iron calipers for measuring, also calipers, tongs, hammer, and file.
Canting (IPA: t͡ʃɑnʈɪŋ, VOS Spelling: tjanting, Javanese: ꦕꦤ꧀ꦛꦶꦁ, romanized: Canting) is a pen-like tool used to apply liquid hot wax (malam) in the batik-making process in Indonesia, more precisely batik tulis (lit.'written batik'). Traditional Canting consists of copper wax-container with small pipe spout and bamboo handle. Traditional canting is made of copper, bronze, zinc or iron material, however modern version might use teflon.