Example of female typist covering keyboard up with handkerchief to show how light the touch needed would be.
"Note that the handkerchief is hardly ruffled."
I feel like that time period and the century before, being able to do something through a thin piece of cloth was indicative of how little effort was required, or how dainty something could be. It definitely feels very gendered to me, but I'll have to find other historical examples to back this argument up.
As like enough it will, I would have it copied.Take it and do ’t, and leave me for this time.
Copying = Creating the semblance, but not real, love between Cassio and Desdemona?
She told her, while she kept it'Twould make her amiable and subdue my fatherEntirely to her love, but if she lost itOr made gift of it, my father’s eyeShould hold her loathèd and his spirits should huntAfter new fancies.
The parallel to the current situation, how a simple object like a handkerchief can dictate the "true" love between two people, the "perfect" love, and it just is ridiculous like magic.
That handkerchiefWhich I so loved and gave thee, thou gav’stTo Cassio.
Handkerchief is a motif of Desdemona's love and affections. Of where her heart lies.