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I recently did some which I backed with Gorilla glue: strength was more important than looks for the job in hand.

Ballistic nylon comes in multiples of 210 (I think it's how many standard-diameter fibres in a thread), so you'll more likely find 420 or 840 denier, for starters - that should help your search.

About the first thing I got was a skiver blade, it's a shankless blade ground on just one side so you can sliver off the edge of a skin on the inside until it's is almost non-existant: you then glue and sew a little way back from the edge. There's one type of edge creaser which has two blades...

Since I use them for my Pfeil chisels my kitchen blades get an occasional edge too. It might be worth checking the local hackerspaces, it's the kind of thing they will have, perhaps.

In the UK, we have another concern hovering the other side of the Channel, the Asian Hornet. This vicious thumb-sized pest has wiped out the French wasp popluation, looks like it's about to do the same with most other insects, and is making bees terminally endangered. The last word heard from...

Which is not a nointment, but a greeting in the lingua franca of the Middle Ages. Ex UK military, 18 years a civvy staffer of WEU, the Defence Diplomatic HQ, I beekeep and study classical weirdness around the Warburg Institute.