To see a tannery in your dream refers to your perseverance and thick-skinned nature. Despite what life throws at you, you remain tough and steadfast.

To dream that you are a tanner suggests that sometimes you still have to do something even though is it not what you want to do.

To dream of a tannery, denotes contagion and other illness. Loss in trade is portended. To dream that you are a tanner, denotes that you will have to engage in work which is not to your taste, but there will be others dependent upon you. To buy leather from a tannery, foretells that you will be successful in your undertakings, but will not make many friends.