Create a continuous brush stroke using a base image? (ex. barb wire, vines, etc )

Is it possible to create a brush that makes a stroke that's a continuous image and not just an instanced image as per usual?
I've seen brushes that do this already, I just can't find any information on how they do it.
Here is an Example
Any help is appreciated!

You could do it by stroking a path with a brush multiple times. Once for the body of the wire — you make the wire rough by using a small splatter brush with close spacing, lots of angle jitter, and a tiny amount of scatter jitter.
Then stroke again with the barbs or razors. For regular barbs just give your custom brush a loose spacing, and set angle jitter to Direction. You could make a multi-barbed brush, but not too long, or the angle jitter would move it off the wire. Still doable if wire and barbs are on different layers so you could nudge the barbs back into place with FT warp.
Layer Styles could give the wire depth and realism.
OK... money where your mouth is time... Two examples. I shaped the razer brush with the Pen tool and guides. The Barb brush was shaped from a DL'd image. The wire in both instances is an 80% hard round brush (the slight softening to give it a touch of anti-aliassing on the curves).
Spacing set wide, and Angle jitter to Direction. Those are the only brush dynamics I used. Bevel & Emboss layer style to give it depth, and Colour overlay because it is easier to experiment with layer styles. The barb brush looked a bit thin, so I duplicated the layer a couple of times. The look better on a black BG with the layer styles.
I _tried_ to get the affect in your example image, but couldn't do it convincingly. If I had a better mind's eye view of what I was trying to achieve, I think I'd have been able to do it. But once you have the brush presets made and saved, it's a very quick and easy to do.
If you do happen to have access to Illustrator, the Art Brush is pretty damn clever
Create an Art brush | Adobe Illustrator CC tutorials

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