ElRat in the Wild - T-Shirt Photos & Kristin Hersh Merch Collection

I love seeing ElRat shirts out in the wild. These are a few of the ones I've seen, or that have been posted on social media. Please feel free to submit your photo's to me so they can be added to the blog. If you want your photo removed from the blog, please email me, elrat@elratdesigns.co.uk and I will remove it immediately.

If i see you and ask for a photo, I will always ask if you want me to cut your head off. As a person who never posts my own picture online, I will always respect your wishes.

Please submit your own wild shirt pics for the blog to wild@elratdesigns.co.uk

Main banner image is me, on my Jollies, wearing the new Kristin Hersh "Crooked" Tee, in purple with Fluorescent Yellow ink

Wild custom lyric shirt

I finally met this wonderful human at the Electric Ballroom gig in London. All the way from the USA, wearing one of the first handwritten custom lyric shirts. It has "Throwing Muses 2024" on the front, and "Lazy Eye" lyrics on the back. (How lucky were we that that was in the set??)

Before the Throwing Muses Electric ballroom gig. Custom Lazy Eye lyric shirt front

Before the Throwing Muses Electric ballroom gig. Custom Lazy Eye lyric shirt rear

More from the Electric Ballroom

A few more shirts spotted at the London show on the 27th, this turned out to be the last one of the tour, due to The One Hersh losing her voice, it was a great gig, and there were so many lovely people who came to say hello.

Hook in her Head & "KFH" available in all sizes to 6XL, click the images to view product

Me wearing my Throwing Muses University on Black in Fluorescent yellow ink, Manchester academy 24th May, hand pulled at ElRat Designs

Wild in Manchester

Throwing Muses played a storming set in Manchester on the 24th May 2025. It really was a great night, I met some wonderful people, and saw a Kristin Hersh "Silver Sun" shirt. I've only ever printed a handful of these, so that was completely unexpected. Plus there was a nice selection of Throwing Muses logo's too.

All shirts available up to 6XL, click the image to view product

Panoramic stage view from the sound desk, Throwing Muses on Stage on Manchester academy, 24th May 2025

ElRat at the Bearded Theory 25th May 2025

Thank you to these amazing people who let me take their pictures. It was great to see a wild tour shirt in a random place, this one was bought in Norwich I was told. Also, really great to meet these lovely people, I'd seen Mr Ellen West at Leeds, and unfortunately had forgotten to photograph his lovely "Bywater" misprint there. If you see me out on tour, come and say hello, and if you're wearing an ElRat shirt, remind me to take your picture, as with Mr Tour shirt, you only have to say if you want your head cutting off!

"Ellen West" and "Hook in her Head" tees available in all sizes to 6XL, click the image to view product

Wild Misprint at The Cluny

What a beauty to find in Newcastle. A Blue/Purple One-of-a-Kind Tie-dyed Throwing Muses 1986 logo Misprint, this lovely gentleman told me his sister had bought it for him, what an amazing sister!

These are shirts that for some reason I deemed "misprints" often, I can't even tell why when I look at them, so rather than scrapping them, I took the best ones, and made them beautiful, all for only £20 each.

Limited availability, click the image to view the "misprint" collection

Throwing Muses Blue purple tie dye one of a kind misprint, wild in Newcastle 19th may 2025, hand tied, dyed and hand pulled at ElRat Designs

Throwing Muses, live at the Cluny Newcastle, 19th May 2025, pic by ElRat Designs

Custom Tour shirt at Signature Brew

I finally got to see this custom tour shirt I printed, I had somehow missed it at the Bearded Theory, so was incredibly happy to see it here, at the Solo Kristin Hersh gig at Signature Brew London. I was asked if I could print the Moonlight Concessions picture from the tour shirt, with a Throwing Muses University logo above, on the front, and the "Hook in Her Head" print in the back. All on a 3XL Purple/Black Tie-Dyed shirt in Fluorescent Yellow ink. There were some specifics about the print position too, because this amazing woman had a serious chop & sewing plan for it. She had tried to explain what she was going to do, but this is all way beyond me, but honestly, it looks absolutely fantastic. What a treat to be able to help someone realise their Hersh shirt dreams.

Feel free to Email me or WhatsApp/chat using the buttons at the bottom of the page, to talk about your ideas

Wild "Wild Vanilla" custom 2025

A lovely wild pic of this Kristin Hersh, "Wild Vanilla" handwritten custom lyric shirt. "You messing with my head makes a terrible noise" on the front, and the classic KH logo on the rear. This one is from the recent 2025 event, so grateful to everyone who was involved in this. If you missed it, and it's something you're interested it, we will definitely be doing it again

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Wild wild vanilla Custom Handwritten by Kristin Hersh Lyric shirt in White with Black ink hand pulled at ElRat Designs

Wild wild vanilla Custom Handwritten by Kristin Hersh Lyric shirt Back in White with Black ink hand pulled at ElRat Designs

Mr G's beautiful Homage to the Hershverse

I am actually quite emotional when I look at these pictures, The lovely Paul G, who as you can see has bought a fair amount of ElRat Hersh goods, was kind enough to send in photo's of his massive stack of shirts and prints. I am properly blown away at his beautiful array of free prints and things that he's accumulated over many months. Every Hersh shirt comes with a free Kristin Hersh halftone test print, as well as other bits and bobs, depending what I have around at the time.

View the Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave or Solo Kristin Hersh Collection

ElRat on Social media

Huge thank you to all the people who posted their shirts online, sorry if I missed your pictures, please tag me @ElRatDesigns on Twitter, Instagram, or Threads and @ElRatDesigns.co.uk on BlueSky. Click the images to view the various products

Feel free to email me your wild shirt pics, head on or off, and I'll add them to the blog

Wild in stratford Throwing Muses Slippershell shirt in Charcoal with Yellow ink

Wild Kristin Fn' Hersh KFH shirt in Black with White ink hand pulled at ElRat Designs

ElRat on her Jollies

I am not a good salesperson/business owner, in truth, I only ever make things for me. Some of the things on my store, only exist in my own collection, and that's OK. Because the only way to be an artist is to do what makes you happy. I would rather have a stack of designs that make me happy and don't sell, than sell a million things that I hate. So, this is me on my jollies wearing my own shirts, because that's all they were ever for, and anything else is really incidental.

I hope you enjoyed this Blog, please feel free to leave a comment, send some pics, or ignore it completely. Since this is another thing that I only made because I wanted to.

Love El🖤

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