The work aims to arrange and organize the abundant decorative pattern resources of bronze ware to meet the needs of designers using decorative patterns of bronze ware for creative design and help the transmission of traditional culture. The decorative motif, decorative art and semantics in decorative patterns of bronze ware were analyzed, and the behavior and thinking process of designers obtaining design prototypes and knowledge through cultural resources database were explored to refine the metadata tags, determine the visual elements, and finally establish a database including 1154 decorative patterns of bronze ware. The decorative pattern database of bronze ware for creative design realized the multi-dimensional information presentation of data and provided a platform for designers to quickly learn and acquire the decorative pattern prototype and knowledge of bronze ware, which was helpful for designers to understand the features, relationships and patterns hidden in the data. The visualization method of decorative pattern database of bronze ware conforms to the cognitive comfort of designers, which provides a new idea for creating a professional platform of digital cultural resources for designers.