Abelian maps, brace blocks, and solutions to the {Y}ang-{B}axter equation

Let $G$ be a finite nonabelian group. We show how an endomorphism of $G$ with abelian image gives rise to a family of binary operations $\{\circ_n: n\in \mathbb Z^{\ge 0}\}$ on $G$ such that $(G,\circ_m,\circ_n)$ is a skew left brace for all $m,n\ge 0$. A brace block gives rise to a number of non-degenerate set-theoretic solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation. We give examples showing that the number of solutions obtained can be arbitrarily large.