Adding texture to a drawing in photoshop

I have a drawing that I did on Illustrator, that I want to change the texture on the drawing (in photoshop) to make it look like webbing (adding a weave pattern) I was told that I need to do this through the paintbrush, but I need a little more explanation.

As our Bruce has just told you, there are so many ways to add texture. Strangely, none of the obvious methods would use the paint brush. Also, as suggested by our Bruce, it depends entirely on what you want to do, and a scale of any patten involved.
The denim patten in this was done using the Half Tone filter, for instance.
There are weave pattens available from Scripted Fill if you have CC, or a great tool to experiment with overlaying textures, is to install the free Flypaper Textures extension by Russell Brown.
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