Batik is a fabric that is painted using canting and liquid wax so that it forms high artistic-value paintings on a cloth. Batik comes from the words amba and tik which are Javanese, which means to write a dot. If in the past it was called an ambatik.

From here you can understand, if what is meant is written batik painted with canting. But actually batik is made with a variety of methods, not only with canting. But that we discuss later, now we return to the understanding of batik.
Ambatik refers to the technique of painting intricate points. So don't you wonder if you often see batik with complicated motifs? Although there are also many batik with more simple motifs, even modern.